As the country's eastern regions are hit with increased shelling from Russian-backed separatist rebels and a force of what Western capitals says is more than 150,000 Russian personnel on its borders, residents of Ukraine's capital Kyiv confide their emergency plans "if the worst happens". People lay flowers at a memorial on the 8th anniversary of the Euromaidan protests which lasted three months and culminated in a bloodbath that claimed the lives of more than 100 largely unarmed people and about 20 anti-riot police. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES