It's been nealry a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. But nine years ago this week, CBC News correspondent Susan Ormiston and videographer Pascal Leblond witnessed dramatic events in Ukraine that set the stage for the current war.
When we arrived, people were still hauling the dead to ambulances, mopping up blood, reinforcing barricades and gathering up bricks and rifles, girding for more protests at nightfall.
After the tragedy of the day before, Yanukovych announced an agreement with the opposition. But by the end of that day, he'd fled — an unbelievable turn of events. It was over: Yanukovych had been toppled.Political uncertainty in UkraineIn February 2014, Viktor Yanukovych was out of power and his rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, had been freed from jail. She joined the thousands who continued to protest in Kyiv's Independence Square.
A woman stands next to a stand of canned vegetables during the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv in February 2014. What appeared to be Russian military vehicles began to gather on Crimean highways from Sevastopol in the south to the Crimean-Ukrainian border in the north. Armed soldiers with no insignias and vehicles with no licence plates appeared on the streets. The Kremlin denied the "green men" were part of the Russian Armed Forces.
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