In the Trade Union House Fire 42 people died (Wikipedia).
Reconstruction of events of May 2, 2014 – Kyiv Post.
Social Media Users in Search of “Facts” (using Odessa Trade Union House Fire as Example)
Another longer video taken from inside the building shows how police forces next to the building tried to separate the two fighting groups, retreating further and further. A person from the pro-Russian side holds an automatic weapon and aims on the people on the pro-European side. Supporters from both sides throw Molotov cocktails and stones.
In early 2014, there were clashes between rival groups of protestors in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, during the pro-Russian unrest that followed the Ukrainian Revolution.[21][22] The street clashes were between pro-unity (and pro-European) football fans and anti-government (anti-Maidan), pro-Russian protesters. Violence erupted on 2 May, when a ‘United Ukraine’ rally was attacked by pro-Russian separatists. Stones, petrol bombs and gunfire were exchanged; two pro-Ukraine activists and four pro-Russia activists were shot dead in the clashes.[23][24][25][26] The pro-Ukraine protesters then moved to dismantle a pro-Russian protest camp in Kulykove Pole (*), causing some pro-Russian activists to barricade themselves in the nearby Trade Unions House. Shots were fired by both sides, and the pro-Ukraine protesters attempted to storm the building, which caught fire as the two groups threw petrol bombs at each other.[27][28][29]
The clashes resulted in deaths of 48 people, 46 of whom were anti-Maidan/pro-Russian activists.[30] 42 of the victims died in the Trade Unions House fire, and 200 were injured.[31] The events were the bloodiest civil conflict in the region since the Odessa Bolshevik uprising of 1918.[32] Although several alleged perpetrators were charged, there has yet to be a trial.[33] There are allegations that some police colluded with pro-Russian activists in the initial street clashes.[34] In 2015, the International Advisory Panel of the Council of Europe concluded that the investigation’s independence was hampered by “evidence indicative of police complicity”,[35] and that authorities failed to thoroughly investigate the events.[36]
This happened within the larger frame of the 2014 Odessa clashes – which in turn took place in the unrest in Ukraine, as a result of the attempt of Russian president Putin to bring Ukraine under his control by influencing Ukrainian president Yanukovich.
The majority of the people of Ukraine had made clear in several moments that it wanted
a) to be independent of Russia and
b) to be more closely allied with the European Union than with Russia
With this Russia did not agree.
With this some pro-Russian Ukrainians did not agree.
And from a certain point the Russian propaganda worked relentlessly to dehumanize Ukrainian and Westerns in general. Nazis, colonialist, satanists …