[gatagato]

5 protesters killed in clashes with police in Kiev

Fierce clashes between riot police and anti-government protesters in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, have left five people dead and hundreds more injured.

The clashes broke out on Wednesday when Ukrainian police moved in to dismantle a protest camp in the center of the capital, AFP reported.

The protesters hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at police who responded with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.

The opposition movement's medical service said five of its members had been killed in the clashes, claiming that four of them died of bullet wounds. Prosecutors have so far confirmed only two deaths.

"As of now, five people have been killed. Around 300 were wounded today from midnight," said Oleg Musiy, the coordinator of the medical service.

Wednesday fatalities were the first in two months of protests over the government's failure to sign a deal for closer integration with the European Union.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01...-kiev-clashes/

RT reporter films police beating protesters on ground (Scroll down for the Video)

[bob351]

Insanity, I love a good riot/protest but people dying brings it into a whole new level.

[icheerthebull]

amazing picsI will never back the police over the people but I cant lie and say the neo nazi aspect does not have me worried

[invertigo]

That is a Pulitzer Prize worthy image.

[jinhwangtikatang]

Tank Destroyed :

[gatagato]

Police, protesters in standoff on EuroMaidan; death toll rises to 22 people

KIEV, Ukraine — At least 22 people were reported killed on Tuesday in what was by far the bloodiest day of violence in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev since mass protests and civil unrest began in late November .

Clashes between police and protesters began only a block away from the Verkhovna Rada, the country’s parliament and continued throughout the evening. Protesters fought with bats, Molotov cocktails, rifles and paving stones; riot police fired rubber bullets, and in some cases, live ammunition.

By nightfall, thousands of protesters gathered and lit blazes in Independence Square.

The death toll included two police officers who were shot to death chasing a car with suspected criminals. Altogether, according to the Kyiv Post newspaper, seven policers officers died in the violence. Fifteen protesters were killed and an estimated 1,000 were injured.

One protestor suffocated in smoke at the Party of Regions office; three other dead bodies were found at the Officers' House (two with gunshot wounds and one with road accident injuries); another died in an ambulance, also from a gunshot wound; and two more died from heart attacks, Kiev police told Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

The two policemen also died from gunshot wounds, one in an ambulance and the other in the hospital, police said.

Just before midnight on Tuesday, city lights went out in central Kiev and around Indpendence Square. Shortly afterward police and so-called titushki, or thugs for hire, fired ultraviolet paint pellets at protesters to illuminate them in the darkness.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...es-337067.html

[ak74]

We will be doing that to get out the EU soon

[DJSmurf2010]

Another Live Stream that looks to be of the protesters...

[invertigo]

It's always a bummer to see gorgeous, centuries old architecture destroyed in civil clashes.

[ices]

Top Gear just showed an episode in Ukraine.

Top Gear went to Syria before it went to shit.


Is Top Gear promoting too much freeeeeeedom?!