Chronicle of the Revolution... Live frames of societal uplift, hope, faith in freedom, the triumph of progress and justice. Every revolution in Ukraine since the 20th century has had its own chronicle. In just a few days, on November 26, we will show at the House of Cinema the restored chronicle of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921, where at last, clearly and up close, as if they were our contemporaries—well, almost like our contemporaries—we will see the participants of the Ukrainian liberation movement from a century ago.

But today is not about that. Today is about an amateur chronicle of low quality, shot on a cell phone. A chronicle of our revolution, the beginning of the Third Liberation Struggle, the new war for Independence. Back on November 23, 2013, it was hard to foresee the scale of the coming events. However, the air was already filled with a premonition that Ukraine was entering a new stage. A stage of real struggle for its cultural and political independence, for its European choice.

On that day, several thousand Ukrainians gathered near the Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor. A requiem service took place there, which became a prototype of the religious services on Maidan, where clergy from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, Protestant, Muslim, and Jewish communities prayed together.

It was still a "peaceful" event, organized according to old standards, but the "authorities" were already glaring like wolves at the people walking under the Ukrainian flag. And the people were ready. When police officers approached our director Ivan Kanivets, one of the future heroes of the war and his comrades instantly appeared nearby, ready to help. At that time, it turned out to be a misunderstanding and ended without violence. But just a few days later, the "law enforcement" revealed the brutal grin of Russian chauvinism. Today's missile is a continuation of that same story: when batons, bullets, shells, and tanks failed, Russia clung to its last hope—nuclear weapons carriers. Will this bring them victory? Can a missile defeat the spirit of free people we see here? I think the answer is obvious.