2025-04-26
This "unprovoked" conflict should perhaps be seen in a different light if this report of the deliberations of the ECHR are to be believed.
The so-called Maidan Revolution of 2014 was an horrific and bloody affair, with (reportedly) gunmen firing into crowds, and much else as described in the linked article.
After the change of government, internal sporadic conflict took place almost continuously, despite the negotiated Minsk Agreements 1 and 2 which should have ended the fighting.