Ukrainian Peace Ends, At Least 28 Protesters Dead

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Video c/o The Associated Press.

New fighting in Kiev, despite a reported truce, has led to some reporting 18, some reporting 20, some reporting 28, but all reporting a likelihood for many more deaths in the streets as chaos has broken out in the capital.

As CNN reports,

“It’s unclear what prompted the gunfire. But CNN crews at the scene reported that as security forces were moving away from the area, a group of protesters pursued them, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.

“Protesters broke the truce,” said a statement from President Viktor Yanukovych’s office.”The opposition used the negotiation period to buy time, to mobilize and get weapons to protesters.

When the bullets flew, several demonstrators fell to the ground.

Protesters grabbed the wounded by their clothes or limbs, and carried many of them to a hotel lobby at one end of the square that had been converted into a triage center.

Bodies, covered in bloodied sheets, lay on the floor. Orthodox priests prayed over them.”

The protests originated from opposition to a power grab from the President Yanukovych last year, as Russian ally.

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