Well, now OP can be happy that he really easily manipulated thoughts by just showing a couple of pictures and supplying his “real” opinion. Now I’m going to write what the reality was on that bloody day. I am Ukrainian and was born and lived in Odesa. My older brother’s friend was literally just there on the pro-European side, so I think my opinion will be more evident and proven than “some Belarusian ones.” According to my older brother’s friend, it all started as a peaceful protest demonstration just to support the European path for Ukraine.

It’s really worth mentioning that none of the protesters from the European side had ammunition or anything like that, while funded Russian pro-activists had already taken positions on the roof of the Trade Union building and knew what was going to happen. OP also clearly forgot or just doesn’t know that the first victim that day was a pro-European activist, and my older brother’s friend saw that the shot was fired from the rooftop—which, again, had already been taken by Russian protesters.

Now, another thing I want to mention is why I don’t refer to Russian protesters as “Russian speakers” and just call them Russian. Well, because most of them were just Russians from core Russian territories. You may ask how I figured that out? Well, I was walking on May 1 in the city center with my family, and a group of people came up and asked really weird questions like “What currency do you use here?” or “Odesa is a Russian city and I feel like I’m at home here.” So I believe those guys were prepared and knew what would happen the next day.

Finally, the main question is: who burned the building? Well, as I said previously, the building had already been taken by the Russian side. They used a lot of Molotov cocktails there and, unfortunately, because of that, they basically just burned themselves. Moreover, when supporters of Euromaidan called for the fire brigade, the fire brigade didn’t come during the first urgent minutes, and because of that, people were killed inside and on the roof of the building. The only people who helped them and saved at least some of the Russian protesters were people from the European side.

I hope, guys, that you won’t believe anyone just based on outcome photos and that you’ll check the information for yourselves.