On Saturday, 22 February 2025, not long after the Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes, employees of the Media Center Directorate brought diplomats on a walking tour entitled Symbolic Places of the Revolution of Dignity. During the tour, foreign guests visited the Information and Exhibition Centre of the Maidan Museum.
The group that joined the visit to the sites of the Ukrainian struggle for freedom and democracy included Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico Audencio Contreras Gonzalez, as well as employees of the Embassies of Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, and Sweden.
The Revolution of Dignity, also known as Euromaidan, was a series of mass protests that took place in Ukraine in 2013–14, primarily in response to the government’s refusal to sign the European Union Association Agreement. The protests grew in scale following a succession of violent crackdowns on protesting students, becoming a widespread anti-corruption movement in favour of Ukraine’s European future and the change of political leadership.
During the walking tour, Ihor Poshyvailo, PhD in History and Director of the National Memorial Complex of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes — Museum of the Revolution of Dignity, told the employees of foreign missions about the context and the course of the Euromaidan’s events, including the peaceful and violent phases of the confrontation. The diplomats visited Independence Square, the Heavenly Hundred Heroes Alley, and Instytutska Street — the sites of the key events, where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians demanded reforms and better conditions for the country. The protests spiralled into a bloody struggle that took the lives of over a hundred protesters, who have been referred to as the Heavenly Hundred ever since.
The Revolution of Dignity changed Ukraine, resulted in a change of government, set off profound socio-political processes, and laid the groundwork for further reforms. It also defined the Ukrainian state’s course towards European integration and bolstered the national identity of Ukrainians, reassuring them of their power to resist the regime and aggressive foreign policy of the russian federation, which unleashed the russian-Ukrainian war in the revolution’s wake.
