After anti protest laws were enacted already alarmed and protesting citizens stepped up their resistance to the increasingly authoritarian out of touch government.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/01/ukraine-president-calls-calm-amid-clashes-201412016214424945.html

Government has made illegal; shields, armor, helmets and gas masks for protests.

This all makes occupy look very sedate, Afghanistan veterans, barricades, guards with bats and people flouting the new ‘no armor’ laws dressed in medieval style protection, some even getting actual medieval helmets.

Hacktivists have shut down many government websites

One of the possible futures for Ukraine is a breakup into two or more states based on ethnic/linguistic lines.

Shields: aluminum cladding (?), borrowed from police, 44 gallon drum, reinforced sign, plywood.

Recent laws made gas masks illegal, so all the more reason to wear one.

This guy really does not care if you know where money comes from or not, it’s beyond that for now.

Hey Molotov, look at those poor policemen, they have been standing in the cold for hours with no Vodka,

throw them one of your cocktails, here I’ll light it so they can see it coming.

Dimitri, this not in police manual.

https://occupymelbourne.net/2014/02/21/ukraine-protesters-shot-oligarchs-flee/

https://occupymelbourne.net/2013/12/02/ukraine-unrest-soars/