UKRAINIAN TV CHANNEL 122 SAYS AT LEAST TWO KILLED, MORE INJURED AS A RESULT OF EXPLOSION DURING PEACE MARCH IN UKRAINE-CONTROLLED CITY OF KHARKIV
-- Reuters
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service is also live-streaming video from Kyiv of the memorial march a year after unrest that led to the exit of then-Ukrainian President Yanukovych.
The organizers marked the start of today's march by noting that guests and representatives of many European countries are attending the event. "Today as never before, we need peace," they said in launching the demonstration. "Today, we are all Ukrainians."
The "Heavenly Hundred" is the name given by pro-Maidan activists to fellow protesters killed by Ukrainian security forces a year ago under the administration of then-President Viktor Yanukovych.
Just re-upping an important sidenote, highlighted by The Guardian, to Saturday's "anti-Maidan" demonstrations in Russia:
Ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has controversially spoken out from self-imposed exile in Russia, promising, exactly a year after he fled Kiev, to return to Ukraine to “ease people’s lives” and help stop the war.
Yanukovych’s interview with Russia’s state-owned Channel One was his first public appearance since he gave two bizarre press conferences in Rostov-on-Donin February and March 2014, claiming he remained Ukraine’s president.
“I regret that I was unable to do anything,” Yanukovych said. “As soon as it’s possible, I will come back and do everything in my power to ease people’s lives. The main task now is to stop the war.”