In Kiev's Independence Square, a battle rages on between a makeshift army of Molotov cocktail-throwing protesters who are demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovich and his government, and a phalanx of black-clad Berkut state riot police. The protesters insist that their country has been betrayed by a corrupt government that has chosen to align itself with Russia and halt Ukraine's aspiration to build closer ties with the European Union. However, as the death toll continues to rise and smoke from the flames of burning vehicles hangs over the very heart of the capital, many questions are left unanswered. Just who are these protesters, and why is "Euro maidan" so much more ugly and violent than the Orange Revolution of nine years ago? What role is the ultra-nationalist "Right Sector" playing in this uprising, and who is paying for its expenses? RT takes you behind the barricades to get the facts."

From the COMMENTS of the people below the video:
- MarkUs FinSki":The Ukrainians are a stupid sheep people, not seeing what USA and NATO countries were wanting to achieve. I don't think they still realize what just happened and that they are a lot worse off that before. The Maiden terrorist groups sold out Ukraine and were never Patriots whatsoever in the first place. I think Ukrainian people are to blame for Ukraine becoming Europe's Anus - What did Ukrainians think was going to happen from past experience with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Syria (Or Yemen)? Promises are never kept. And people are always a lot worse off than they were prior to the West interfering, propaganda and funding/arming the so called revolution/up-rising." 

- Margo777London:"I am way too well informed.... This is why I live in London... Oh, well, at least one good thing came out of Maidan - it ended 23 horrible years of Ukrainian occupation of beautiful Crimea!! It is finally back home with Russia where it belongs!! :-)"

- MrDex369:"It's so easy Americans and west Europe fucked up Ukraine !! And aim wasn't Ukraine but Russia, the Americans and westerners can't have classic war with Russia but to blame Russia for aggression on Ukraine than putting sanctions and in same time with one clap biting two targets Ukraine and Russia !!! Ukrainians have one chance left to regain their country, and it's connection with EUssia rebuilding economy and military straight !!!but I think Ukraine is very much infiltrated with all western secret service groups CIA, BND etc so they have only few possibilities to turn this disaster on different side !!! They should connect with Russia! Just look what's happened with Syria and Bashar el Assad !!!"

- Carlos Valdes:"VERY SAD, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND NOW ALL FUCKUP. SAME MODUS OPERANDI, SAME MANIPULATION THAT LAID THE ROAD FOR LONG CONFRONTATION, DESTRUCTION AND WAR, AND ALL FOR ……….$$$$$$$$"
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U.S. Senator John McCain, center, speaks as Democratic senator from the state of Connecticut, Chris Murphy, second left, and Opposition leader Oleh Tyahnybok, right, stand around him during a Pro-European Union rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013
- the Lemniscat:"Graham, McCain, Nuland, Brennan and Biden all visit Kiev but it's Russia that's interfering in Ukraine? #Seriously???
There's a detail that might cause McCain fans at home some concern. As the U.K.'s Channel 4 news points out, McCain was repeatedly photographed with Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of the right wing nationalist party Svoboda.  When it was founded in 1995, the party called itself the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), and it had a swastika-like logo. While it eventually split from its more right wing members, the party remained focused on celebrating Ukrainian ethnic identity in opposition to Russia and Communism.
Tyahnybok himself was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary faction in 2004 after giving a speech demanding that Ukrainians fight against a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia" (he later clarified this by saying that he actually had Jewish friends and was only against to "a group of Jewish oligarchs who control Ukraine and against Jewish-Bolsheviks [in the past]"). In 2005 he wrote open letters demanding Ukraine do more to halt "criminal activities" of "organized Jewry," and, even now, Svoboda openly calls for Ukrainian citizens to have their ethnicity printed onto their passports.

In the past, McCain has sometimes revealed a simplistic, Cold War viewpoint of Russia. You have to wonder if, by going to Ukraine and standing on stage with a man accused of being an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi, he may have shown that trait again." - from http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahnybok-in-ukraine-2013-12

Noe read the COMMENTS taken from the link above:
 - the-straw-man :"Not the first time he has posed with "freedom fighters":
=>John McCain poses with known jihad kidnappers in Syria
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Western journalists have published photos of snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev shortly after 9 o’clock on the morning of February 20 and continued about seven hours later in the afternoon drawing to the bloodiest day. The photos prove that the shooters were from Ukraine.  
Most of the photographs accompanying that article were taken on February 20, and they appear to reveal the truth about who carried out the shootings in Independence Square on that day.

Policemen carry a colleague wounded during clashes with anti-government protesters in Kiev on February 18, 2014. (AFP Photo / Yury Kirnichny).  The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online.
“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation. “I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton answered.

By Global Research News The following letter by a young Ukrainian girl was brought to our attention. The letter translated from Russian depicts the drame of young girl, It describes the context of oppression prevailing in Ukraine’s capital directed  against those who opposed the Maidan.

Unfortunately, I had to close all posts in my VK(VKontakte) about Maidan (they aren’t erased, but now are visible only to me) because after the Maidan “victory” in Kiev the real nightmare began. About that, people prefer not to speak because they are very much afraid. There are [Right Sector] militants everywhere.