People hold flowers as they pay their respects at the memorial of Maidan activists, also known as "Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred", referring to the people killed in the anti-government demonstrations of 2013-2014, during a commemoration to mark the tenth anniversary of the Maidan uprising, in Kyiv on November 21, 2023. The Maidan protests erupted in late 2013 when Kremlin-backed President Viktor Yanukovych ditched an association agreement trade deal with the European Union and subsequently sparked a separatist conflict in the east of the country. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)