Six days later, two protestors were shot dead, and a third, who had been abducted, was found murdered. From the perspective, say, of either the United States or Russia, both much more violent societies, it is hard to appreciate the weight of these three deaths for Ukrainians. The mass killings by sniper fire four weeks later would overshadow these first two deaths. The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began five weeks later brought so much more bloodshed that it can seem impossible to recall how the killing began. And yet to the society actually concerned, there were specific moments that
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