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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

The Maidan, Kyiv's Independence Square, has been the heart of political change in Ukraine for more than two decades. While visiting NPR's team covering Ukraine — correspondent Joanna Kakissis and producers Hanna Palamarenko and Polina Lytvynova — I went back to the square, where history-making news events have drawn me for over two decades.

Memories flooded back of two people-power revolutions against Kremlin influence.

In 2004, no one knew if police would fire on protesters. Instead, a cop climbed on stage, knelt, and kissed the flag. Hundreds of thousands erupted in cheers and tears. A decade later, riot police snipers opened fire on demonstra

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