“Should I fight or should I film?” No, that’s not a Clash outtake. It’s what Artem Ryzhykov asked himself as he observed the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2014 — a protest that sprawled over several months, as citizens took to the streets to bring down the Russian puppet leader President Yanukovych, in an uprising that presaged the war that has now engulfed Ukraine. The protest began with a surge of hope and fervor and ended in a bloodbath; Ryzhykov himself got hit by a pair of bullets (we hear the two shots as he’s filming). “My camera was blown to pieces,” he says. The Maidan Revolution succeeded in
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