One year ago Maidan Square in Kyiv transformed from a protest site into a killing ground. Over three days up to 100 people were shot dead as riot police clashed with anti-government protesters.

Starting on February 20 2014, after months of protests confrontations erupted between security forces and anti-government protesters in Maidan Square in Kyiv and shots were fired. By February 20th the death toll had reached 100. Demonstrators blamed government snipers, while President Yanukovych blamed the protesters for stoking the violence. The controversy continues, as the head of Ukraine’s security forces quoted on Ukrainian news agency UKRINFORM said that Vladislav Surkov, a close ally of Putin was involved in managing groups of snipers.

Yanukovych fled the country and his government collapsed, which led to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in the east which has claimed more than 5,000 lives.

Now a site of tributes, Ukrainians remember those who lost their lives in the ki