Did Russia tell you that? Because none of my friends who were on Maidan got any money, and all of my friends' parents who volunteered to give them food and water paid for those out of their own savings and pensions. Where did that 5 billion go, if none of it got to Maidan?
I heard it was because they wanted the government to help the Ukrainian troops surrounded by
The photos were of Russian trucks, and when Grad was first fired, the casualties were Ukrainian civilians and Ukrainian troops. Russia tried to play it down as if it was "the rebels" that shot GRAD, not them, but America and Europe were shocked and were trying to figure out if GRAD is even allowed within Geneva conventions. Your memories are so short! It is no wonder you guys are wishing to have a communist empire again. You all forgot how terrible it was.
So there are no Russians in Eastern Ukraine or Crimea? Or, if there are volunteers, where did they get their military equipment? Did they have a donation collection at their local church? Or maybe everyone in Russia can buy such weapons? (Wikipedia says Russia has strict gun controls, and citizens can't buy rifles, but maybe since Wikipedia is banned in Russia, those Russians just didn't know they weren't allowed to buy them...)