At least 5 Interior troops captured by protesters and taken behind main stage on maidan. pic.twitter.com/EjDxNLi7r9
Posted on 02/20/2014 12:17:37 AM PST by kristinn
Based on reports via Twitter.
From Christopher Miller, Editor of Kyiv Post:
At least 5 Interior troops captured by protesters and taken behind main stage on maidan. pic.twitter.com/EjDxNLi7r9
Medics just pronounced this man dead on Maidan. I'm here. #Ukraine #euromaidan pic.twitter.com/nawQsAgmd3
At least 20 police captured by protesters and being held behind stage at maidan now. #euromaidan #Ukraine
Protesters stripping captured police of gear, weapons. The police look like kids. None can be older than 20s.
BBC via Twitter: Some Ukrainian athletes to leave Sochi Winter Olympics following "unrest & violence within their country" - Intl Olympic Committee #Kiev
ABC News Moscow reporter Kirit Radia via Twitter:
Ukrainian Bogdana Matsotska withdraws frm #Sochi2014. "In solidarity w the fighters on the barricades...we refuse further performance" #Kiev
Ukrainian skier withdraws from #Sochi2014 over #Kiev killings: "outraged by recent actions of President of #Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych"
On twitter: cabinet and officials have evacuated parliment and other buildings. EU officials that were to meet with Ukraine officials today have also left, no meeting.
A Reuters alert says a photographer counted 15 bodies at the square covered by blankets.
The live video shows a lot of helmeted people on the platform and in the crowd at the square in Kiev.
Read a report of police surrendering throughout the area and is one of the reasons buildings are being evacuated. Don’t know how accurate the report is. Also, am wondering if police are surrendering their weapons? Everything could be a ruse though to buy time except for the buildings being evacuated. Is tough finding info. My reports are also relying on twitter feeds.
On twitter said a police lt. said he would now fight with the protesters. Hospital worker just now on stage tearfully speaking, looked like she was giving instructions to the crowd.
Proof of police snipers. @KyivPost photographers Pavlo Podufalov just took this photo near Maidan. #euromaidan pic.twitter.com/wEzxP3l6tn
Thanks.
I like that photo of the protester helping the cop with a blanket over him. On the live stage they just showed an empty ammo tin - that Russian style that you need the special can-opener to open.
Of course what did the protesters expect? I fear that all of the lives lost in this will be lost for something that they did not know or want to happen.
There was a photo from last night on twitter of three protesters on fire - one fully engulfed. Looked to be an accident where they were prepping the molatovs.
Including your photo, I’ve counted 11 dead laid out at the medical hut , all from sniper fire today. All corpses being held at the main Medic hut on the Square. Dozens of media got video/photos.
Thanks so much for the photos on this thread!
Did you notice what the young man held up before he held up the ammo tin? A hand grenade. I wish I could understand what they’re saying because I have no idea where the grenade came from.
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