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Scores of police officers held hostage and 70 protesters killed in Kiev
Fire and blood by DOMINIC YEATMAN
PROTESTERS have taken dozens of police officers hostage, it emerged, on the bloodiest day so far in the political crisis engulfing Ukraine. As many as 70 demonstrators were reported dead after a short-lived truce came to a violent end yesterday morning and protesters regained control of Independence Square in the capital, Kiev. People were warned to stay indoors while the parliament building was evacuated. Ukrainian television showed footage of protesters being cut down by gunfire and lying on the pavement as others rushed to their aid. Some protesters tried to protect themselves with shields as they carried away the injured on sheets of plastic and planks of wood. Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said: ‘The truce was broken by riot police. It’s hard to control the situation now real combat has started.’ Activists paraded captured police
‘It’s hard to control with real combat’ officers around the square with their hands above their heads. The interior ministry said 67 of them were being held in the occupied city hall. The development took place as a high-level delegation from the European Union met opposition leaders and members of president Viktor Yanukovych’s government, which did a U-turn on a pact to join the EU around three months ago. EU delegate Radoslaw Sikorski
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Flames of defiance: Protesters’ clothes catch fire as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police in Kiev yesterday PICTURE: afP/gETTy tweeted: ‘Black smoke, detonations and gunfire around presidential palace... Officials panicky.’ Diplomats have warned the country could be heading towards civil war. The regional government in the western city of Lviv has already declared its autonomy. As both the US and EU put travel
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centrate on protecting its people’ for Russia to hold true to its economic pledge, he added. Meanwhile, Ukrainian skier Bogdana Matsotska announced she was withdrawing from the Winter Olympics in protest at the violence. The 24-year-old said: ‘I hope that I will be heard by the world.’
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Speaking ahead of yesterday’s extraordinary meeting of the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said: ‘The use of force cannot be a means of resolving the political stalemate in Ukraine. ‘The authorities must respect and protect the fundamental rights of Ukraine’s citizens.’
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