"This exposes perhaps the deeper game that especially the Americans have been playing, which is really to try to bleed Russia and try to weaken Russia as part of their overall campaign to eliminate anyone who doesn't really toe the line with American policy,” Hammond explained. “What they do is they just drag it on and on and on and on, allowing Ukraine to be the sacrificial lamb for American policy interests.” (sputnik)
The demonstrators were shot in the back by snipers from their own side. This helped speed up the change over from a democratically elected President to a US installed dictator.
Part of Ukraine didn't want to be ruled by a (((Victoria Nuland))), usa assistant secretary of state installed dictator, and that directly led to the war we have now.