Paul Blackthorne - Narration

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Paul Blackthorne. The people's growing discontent made Ukraine more vulnerable to outside forces, and a new kind of warfare was launched. One not known before the color revolutions. Ukraine has had to color revolutions in these 24 years of independence. In 2004 crowds of people descended upon Kiev, marking the start of the Orange Revolution. At that time, Ukraine became once again a battlefield of two forces the Russian and Western governments. The culmination of this conflict took place during the presidential election in November 2004. The two major candidates, Western backed Viktor Yushchenko on Russian leaning Viktor Yanukovych, almost equally shared the votes of Ukrainians.