It was shocking to see women work on a par with men. On high heels, in skirts, business outfits—they, just like me, sensed the crackdown coming and hurried to the Maidan after work. To show their social attitude. When I saw a married couple of about forty—a well dressed woman carrying a sack of snow on a par with her husband—I just burst out crying.
I was standing, watching and just couldn't take my eyes away from this picture. The thought that five minutes before I was driving here without a hope to ever come back home seemed ridiculous to me. This is how Kyiv was waking up for a real struggle.
December 12
Around 1 am the authorities made an attempt to demolish the tent camp using Berkut, Internal Troops and community service workers. Berkut broke through the barricades and started to
