2014 Odesa clashes: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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A [[hand grenade]] was thrown from a passing car at a joint police–Maidan Self-Defense checkpoint outside Odesa on 25 April, injuring seven people, and causing heightened tensions in the region.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/pro-ukrainian-activists-recover-after-attack-near-odessa-345704.html | title=Pro-Maidan activists recover after attack near Odessa | work=Kyiv Post | date=30 April 2014 | access-date=2 May 2014 | last=Shevchenko | first=Daryna | archive-date=1 May 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501201905/http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/pro-ukrainian-activists-recover-after-attack-near-odessa-345704.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/25/c_133290482.htm | title=7 injured in checkpoint explosion in southern Ukraine | agency=Xinhua News Agency | date=25 April 2014 | access-date=25 April 2014 | archive-date=8 June 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608073342/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/25/c_133290482.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Late April, local authorities together with the leaders of both pro- and antimaidan groups developed a plan to dismantle the antimaidan camp set up on the [[Kulykove Pole]]. For antimaidan activists, the maintenance of the tent camp had become expensive and difficult. The plan was that local activists and football "[[ultras]]", both local and arrived from Kharkiv for a pro-Ukrainian unity march and a football match on 2 May, would demolish the tents. The antimaidan side would benefit from the camp disbanded not voluntarily by themselves, but with force by the adversary, and to "be able later to claim that they were victimised". Part of the tent camp leadership, however, opposed the plan, and called for its supporters "to gather in downtown Odesa to prevent a march of “[[Fascist (insult)|fascists]]”", how they called the pro-Ukrainian unity march on 2 May.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hale |first=Henry E. |last2=Shevel |first2=Oxana |last3=Onuch |first3=Olga |date=2018-10-02 |title=Believing Facts in the Fog of War: Identity, Media and Hot Cognition in Ukraine’s 2014 Odesa Tragedy |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2018.1465044 |journal=Geopolitics |language=en |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=851–881 |doi=10.1080/14650045.2018.1465044 |issn=1465-0045}}</ref>

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