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[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|left|350pc|thumb|[[Pravy Sektor]] snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]

[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|left|350pc|thumb|[[Pravy Sektor]] snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]

Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine's democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia.  Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref>  As in [[Syria]] and other "[[Arab Spring]]" uprisings, ''[[agent provocateurs]]'' began shooting and killing people on both sides to provoke a civil insurrection.  Almost 100 Soros-backed activists and 17 police officers were killed.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957</ref> George Friedman, chairman of ''[[Stratfor]]'', called it "the most blatant ''coup'' in history."<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/22/the-liberal-idiocy-on-russiaukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2636177</ref>

Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. John McCain, began pushing for the [[violent]] coup that in February 2014 ousted Ukraine's democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the [[new Cold War]] with Russia.  Senior U.S. government officials reportedly told the leaders of the [[Svoboda party]] that the deaths of a few protestors would not be enough to change Western support, but the Yanukovych government would only change if the number of victims was greater than one hundred.<ref>https://rumble.com/vxdun0-the-maidan-sniper-massacre-revealing-ukraine.html</ref>  As in [[Syria]] and other "[[Arab Spring]]" uprisings, ''[[agent provocateurs]]'' began shooting and killing people on both sides to provoke a civil insurrection.  Almost 100 Soros-backed activists and 17 police officers were killed.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957</ref> [[George Friedman]], chairman of ''[[Stratfor]]'', called it "the most blatant ''coup'' in history."<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/22/the-liberal-idiocy-on-russiaukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2636177</ref>

On February 16, 2014, members of parliament passed a bill toughening penalties for participation in mass [[riot]]s. After that, the Headquarters of the National Resistance (the coordination center of Euromaidan) announced a "peaceful offensive" on the parliament building. On February 17, the Pravy Sektor put its metropolitan and regional units on alert.

On February 16, 2014, members of parliament passed a bill toughening penalties for participation in mass [[riot]]s. After that, the Headquarters of the National Resistance (the coordination center of Euromaidan) announced a "peaceful offensive" on the parliament building. On February 17, the Pravy Sektor put its metropolitan and regional units on alert.