The Evolution Of Euromaidan In Photos: Euromaidan started late on November 21, 2013, when up to 2,000 protesters gathered at Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). The movement started peacefully but did not end that way. The violence started after the government's crackdown on protesters overnight on November 30.
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Ukrainian pro-European protestors sleep inside Kyiv city hall on December 7. Thousands of protesters gathered in Kyiv to demand the government's resignation and early elections. They blocked the cabinet of ministers' building and occupied a labor-union building and the city administration, where they had hoisted the EU flag a day earlier.
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People surround a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin, which was toppled by protesters during a rally organized by supporters of EU integration in Kyiv on December 8.
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Pro-European protesters stand on a barricade built to block the way to Independence Square in Kyiv on December 9.
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Riot police assault a barricade held by protesters on Independence Square in Kyiv late on December 11. The demonstrators defiantly refused to leave and resisted the police in a tense standoff. Eite Berkut riot police and Interior Ministry special forces moved against the protesters at around 2 a.m. in a move that prompted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to express "disgust" over the crackdown.