Please enlighten us. I would like to know the answers to those questions. Some of those questions appear to be redundant (why/what was the purpose - what means/how)
'Why' = what provoked(led to) the use of weapons?
'For what' = what objective is supposed to be accomplished by using weapons?
It must be understood that
political protests are exceedingly seldom peaceful in nature, and they are
never peaceful when driving force behind protest is pursuing objectives, accomplishing of which demands for destabilization of political situation in the country to considerable extent. Such protests are
specifically tailored to spark violent confrontation with the police, as it facilitates the accomplishment of said objectives.
The idea behind the so-called 'peaceful protest' is to bait internal security forces into taking violent action against protesters by non-violent means and preferably, but not necessarily lawful methods, which naturally provokes public outrage(with everything this entails, he-he) and rallies the amorphous mass of protesters against common enemy. Like this.
This is suppressive action undertaken against the so-called 'student protest' in Kyiv, at 4AM on November 30, 2013. The protests started on November 21. In period from 21th to 30th of November, the biggest protest that took place November 24th had about 50 thousands of participants and
did not present a credible threat to the regime. On the next day the amount of people participating in protests had skyrocketed up to 200 thousands, which resulted in this. To the surprise of absolutely no one who is familiar with applied oppression of the public retardation, the shit show has become a self-perpetuating, ever-escalating clusterfuck and things got only better and better from that point onwards. For politicians of the opposition, their sponsors and, of course, supervisors living in the places foreign.
Now to the weapons. Here's what has been happening on February 1st, 2014.
It does seem factually correct that the police has opened fire at protesters, right? Just like what has happened in Venezuela on several occasions! For example:
CUE
HERD PUBLIC OUTRAGE!!!