Kiev's Euromaidan protests begin 2014 exactly as they ended 2013, with crowds in the street trying to force out President Viktor Yanukovych. VICE News flies in at the end of January as the demonstrations turn violent, filming rioters hurling Molotov cocktails at riot police on Hrushevskoho Street while barricades go up along the edge of Maidan square. The footage catches the protest's uneasy rhythms: early momentum after Prime Minister Mykola Azarov's cabinet resigns and the anti-protest law gets annulled, then a stall as opposition figures like Vitali Klitschko lose the crowd's patience and retreat from the barricades after failed cease-fire talks. Interviews and on-the-ground shooting track the anger at Yanukovych's ties to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and former president Leonid Kravchuk's warning that the country is sliding toward civil war. The film closes without resolution, dozens already dead in the preceding days and the standoff over Independence Square still unresolved, before Yanukovych's later flight from Kiev and Russia's move into Crimea.