Pianist Valentina Lisitsa - Ukrainian crisis - Paris, May 2, 2015

Commemoration of the massacre in Odessa May 2, 2014. On the afternoon of May 2, 2014, riots erupted in the Ukrainian city of Odessa when a crowd of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists led by the ‘Right Sector’ extreme right marched on a peaceful encampment of protestors opposed to the austerity and anti-Russia policies of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv. The attack left at least 46 of the protesters dead. Many were killed after they sought refuge in the House of Trade Unions in the center of the city which was th