As a final update: In the current Russian war in and against Ukraine, neither I nor my allies in groups like the Ukraine Support Network support the Ukrainian government in its attacks on union rights or democratic freedoms. In this article, I first try to clarify what happened in Ukraine, focusing primarily on events in the Kyiv Maidan movement but also addressing what has happened since. This happened in Egypt in 2011–2013, it happened in Argentina in 2003, and it even happened in the classic struggles in the Russian Empire in February 1917 and in Germany in November 1918. Mar 4: In his first public reaction to crisis in Ukraine, Putin says his country reserves the right to use all means to protect its citizens in eastern Ukraine. Aug 26: Ukraine says its troops have captured a group of Russian military servicemen who had crossed the border into eastern Ukraine.