Ukraine Guilty of Human Rights Violations in Trade Union Massacre, Top European Court Finds March 25, 2025 Euromaidan in Kiev, 19 February 2014. Labor Unions’ House on fire. The European Court of Human Rights has found the Ukrainian government guilty of committing human rights violations during the May 2, 2014 Odessa massacre, in which dozens of Russian-speaking demonstrators were forced into the city’s Trade Unions House and burned alive by ultranationalist thugs. Citing the “relevant authorities’ failure to do everything that could reasonably be expected of them to prevent the violence in Odessa,” the court ruled unanimously that Ukraine violated...