Burned alive: How the 2014 Odessa massacre became a turning point for Ukraine

Donbass republics

Clashes between opposing activists turned into mass murder. The perpetrators have never been punished.

Eight years ago this Monday, something significant happened in Odessa, a historically important city in the southwest of Ukraine. Although the West didn’t see it as such, for Russia and the newly formed Donbass republics, what transpired there became a symbolic episode. 

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