Clashes between pro-Maidan and anti-Maidan demonstrators in Odesa, Ukraine
2014 Odesa clashes
Part of Euromaidan and the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
Trade Unions House after the fire on 2 May 2014
Date
26 January – 2 May 2014
Location
Odesa, Ukraine
Parties
Pro-Maidan activists
Maidan People's Union and Maidan Self-Defense
Right Sector[1]
Misanthropic Division[2]
Social-National Assembly[2]
Batkivshchyna youth wing[3]
Anti-Maidan activists[4][5][6][7]
"Youth Unity",[8] "People's Druzhina of Odessa"[7]
Odesskaya Druzhina ("Odessa Militia")[9][10]
Odessa Brigade[7][11]
Borotba[7]
Various small groups and parties[a]
Lead figures
Oleksii Chornyi[12] Oleksandr Ostapenko[13] Andriy Yusov[14] Volodymyr Nemirovsky (until 6 May 2014) Ihor Palytsia (from 6 May 2014) Mark Hordienko[15]
Sergey Dolzhenkov[7][16] Anton Davidchenko (until 17 March 2014) Grigory Kvasnyuk Pavel Kovalenko[17][18] Alexei "Foma" Fominov[19] Anton Rayevsky (c. March 2014)[11] Dmitry Odinov[7] Denis Yatsyuk[7] Alexey Albu[7]
Number
1,200 activists, 600 football ultras from Kharkiv
300[20]
Casualties and losses
2 dead, several dozen wounded
46 dead, several dozen wounded
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Background
Novorossiya
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Russia–Ukraine relations
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In early 2014, there were clashes between rival groups of protestors in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, during the pro-Russian unrest that followed the Ukrainian Revolution.[21][22] The street clashes were between pro-unity (and pro-European) protesters (as well as football fans) and anti-government (anti-Maidan), pro-Russian protesters. Violence erupted on 2 May, when about 2,000-strong 'United Ukraine' rally was attacked by about 300 pro-Russian separatists.[23] Stones, petrol bombs and gunfire were exchanged. An armed anti-Maidan participant shot dead pro-Maidan protester.[24] One more pro-Ukraine activist and four pro-Russia activists were shot dead in the clashes.[25][26][27][28] The pro-Ukraine protesters then moved to dismantle a pro-Russian protest camp in Kulykove Pole, causing some pro-Russian activists to barricade themselves in the nearby Trade Unions House. Shots were fired at pro-Maidan from the building,[24] and the pro-Ukraine protesters attempted to storm the building, which caught fire as the two groups threw petrol bombs at each other.[29][30][31]
The clashes resulted in deaths of 48 people, 46 of whom were anti-Maidan/pro-Russian activists.[32] 42 of the victims died in the Trade Unions House fire, and 200 were injured.[33] The events were the bloodiest civil conflict in the region since the Odessa Bolshevik uprising of 1918.[34] Although several alleged perpetrators were charged, there has yet to be a trial.[35] There are allegations that some police colluded with pro-Russian activists in the initial street clashes.[36] In 2015, the International Advisory Panel of the Council of Europe concluded that the investigation's independence was hampered by "evidence indicative of police complicity",[37] and that authorities failed to thoroughly investigate the events.[38]
^From the separatists' bullets, the tenor of the "Right Sector" died Archived 11 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine - Telegraph, 3 May 2014
^ abKatchanovski, Ivan (2 September 2016). The Far Right in Ukraine During the 'Euromaidan' and the war in Donbas (Report). Rochester, NY. SSRN 2832203.
^ZMI have been named after I died in Odesa Archived 23 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine - Ukrainian truth, 4 May 2014
^"Ukraine Presses Pro-Russia Militants After Fighting Spreads to Odessa". The New York Times. 3 May 2014. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014. many of the dead were pro-Russia militants who had retreated into a trade union building
^"Police say pro-Russians accidentally set fatal Odessa fire with Molotov cocktails". Kyiv Post. 3 May 2014. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014. An eyewitness account from Odesa posted online states that Russian-backed militants shot at and killed at least four soccer fans
^"Ukraine crisis: dozens killed in Odessa fire as violence spreads to country south". The Telegraph newspaper. 2 May 2014. Archived from the original on 6 August 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2015. Dozens have died in a building fire in Ukraine after a clash between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian protesters in the Black Sea port of Odessa.
^ abcdefghi"The main person involved in the May 2 tragedy: Egor Kvasnyuk received money for moving the Anti-Maidan tent camp - now he is in Russia". dumskaya.net. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^ abc""Народные дружины» в Одессе: фашисты под маской «антифашизма"" ["People's squads" in Odesa: the Nazis under the guise of "anti-fascism"]. odessa-daily.com.ua. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
^ ab"Extremism in South-Eastern Ukraine". Open Democracy. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^A two-day mourning was announced in Ukraine Archived 2 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine - Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine, 2 May 2014
^ abAnna Dolgov (31 March 2014). "Ultranationalist Activist Publishes Video Plea Calling For Russians to 'Shed Blood' In Ukraine". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^The leader of the Odesa Euromaidan was arrested for five days Archived 28 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine - Correspondent.net, 26 November 2013,
^Odesa leader Euromaidan became vice-governor Archived 21 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine - Today, 18 March 2014
^"Yusov collects "Euromaidanites" to march on Kulikovo Field on May 2 (video fact)". Timer. 14 May 2014. Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
^"Mark Hordienko: a massage therapist who discovered a revolutionary in himself". Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^"The former opera Captain Cocoa was organizing the massacre in Odessa". 8 May 2014. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
^On the situation in the capital of the Odessa People's Republic Archived 28 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine - http://vg-news.ru Archived 24 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine, 11 April 2015,
^The Odessa People's Republic recognized the LPR and the DPR Archived 26 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine - http://rusdozor.ru Archived 22 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine, 13 April 2015,
^Stanislav Kozlyuk (4 May 2017). "Слідами "коменданта Куликового поля"" [In the footsteps of the "commandant of Kulikovo field"]. tyzhden.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine 15 June 2014 (PDF) (Report). Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 June 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
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^"7 years with no answers. What is lacking in the investigations of the events in odesa on 2 May 2014? | United Nations in Ukraine". ukraine.un.org. Retrieved 15 April 2024.[permanent dead link]
^ abArel, Dominique; Driscoll, Jesse (5 January 2023). Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022. Cambridge University Press. pp. 140, 141. ISBN 978-1-316-51149-7.
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^"Accountability for killings in Ukraine from January 2014 to May 2016" (PDF). UN OHCHR. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 December 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
^"How did Odessa's fire happen?". BBC News. 4 May 2014. Archived from the original on 11 September 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
^"Dozens killed in Odessa fire amid clashes". BBC News. 2 May 2014. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
^"Dozens killed in building fire in Odessa, ministry says". The Guardian. 2 May 2014. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
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^International Advisory Panel Report (Report). Council of Europe. November 2015. para. 31-33. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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^Bogner, Matilda (30 April 2021). ""7 years with no answers. What is lacking in the investigations of the events in odesa on 2 May 2014?"". Kyiv, Ukraine: United Nations. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022.
^International Advisory Panel Report (Report). Council of Europe. November 2015. para. 75, 78-79. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
^International Advisory Panel Report (Report). Council of Europe. November 2015. para. 284-285. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
^International Advisory Panel Report (Report). Council of Europe. November 2015. para. 288. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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