Ukrainians Mark 5-Year Anniversary of Uprising That Ousted Pro-Russia President

Heavily Russian-speaking city a bastion of calm years after violent conflict erupted

A woman sings along to Ukraine’s national anthem at an event in the eastern city of Kharkiv on Nov. 21, 2018, commemorating five years since the Nov. 2013 protests that resulted in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych. Chris Collison/Special to The Epoch Times

KHARKIV, Ukraine—Viktor Marynchak, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest, urged those amassed around the monument to Ukraine’s revered national poet Taras Shevchenko in the eastern city of Kharkiv to not give up on their struggle for the country’s future.

“We cannot stop,” he said to the several hundred who gathered during the freezing late-autumn evening in this city just 20 miles from the Russian border. “We must do everything we can to find the will to win.”