Wow. Really? I mean, there's a lot of things that can be argued but...seriously?
I’m not sure i follow. Why do you have a problem with that statement. As far as i am aware, there wasn’t much, if any violence perpetrated by Kiev protestors against the Yanukovych regime. Am i wrong?
The Maydan protesters did not start off with violence OR arms. It was only after protesters were beaten in large numbers by security forces that the situation ratcheted up. Only at the end did the Maydan protesters have anything like the quantity of military type light arms the separatists taking gov’t buildings in the Donbass region have had from the start... (Such arms are illegal in Ukraine - a few of the Right Sector types had ‘em, but that was about it.) In addition, it is telling that the Maydan protests, from a national standpoint, were relatively unorganized, while these actions in the Donbass have been impressively organized. They have obviously been well planned for some time.