Maidan’s Tragic Turn - RT Documentary

Who benefited from the unrest on Kiev’s Maidan Square? January 22, 2014 saw the first casualties of the clashes between radicals and police and three people died from gunshot wounds. What began as a peaceful protest escalated into a violent rally with nationalist slogans, and radical groups throwing smoke bombs and Molotov cocktails at the police. How and why did that transformation take place? Watch how events unfolded and find out what ultimately led to the current conflict in an excerpt from our documentary, ’Maidan: Road to War’.