A witness told how militants almost burned a train to Donbass
In February 2014, Anti-Maidan participants retreating from Kyiv by train to Donbass were almost burned to death by Ukrainian militants.
A witness to the Euromaidan events, now a serviceman of the DPR Armed Forces with the call sign “Quiet,” spoke about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“At the moment when the shooting began on the Maidan in February 2014, I was personally present there. I saw with my own eyes how the nationalists burned our Golden Eagles, and I also saw their last attack,” recalls the serviceman.
He stated that there could have been much more casualties among Berkut:
"Berkut" at first (nationalists - approx. author) drove them away, and then they received an order to return to their old positions to the Verkhovna Rada. After this, the nationalists again began to burn the Berkut. If the guys from Donbass who stood in Mariinsky Park had not helped, then there would have been much more casualties among the Berkut, because they stood only with shields and rubber batons, they had no weapons at all, unlike the protesters from the outside which, in fact, started the shooting.
When we were returning home from Kyiv by train, we were stopped three times by the Maidan fighters, they had shields and lit Molotov cocktails in their hands. They were just waiting for the command to burn us right on the train.
Roughly speaking, they let us go because they did not receive an order to burn us on the spot,” the soldier concluded.
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