16:08
22.1.2014
After nearly 12 hours of chaos, the barricades are bigger and the fires blacker.
16:02
22.1.2014
15:45
22.1.2014
Christopher Miller, an editor with the "Kyiv Post" says the item below was fired by Kyiv riot police earlier today. It is not typically of the rubber bullets seen previously.
15:15
22.1.2014
Our Ukrainian Service reports of a brawl between pro-opposition members and so-called tytushky -- large men, usually dressed in athletic-ware -- in the eastern city of Donetsk. Opposition members chanted "gang away" and "fascists out." The tytushki had begun burning flags of protesters before police stepped in to end the melee.
14:41
22.1.2014
Video from a little earlier today shows riot police brutally beating those they're able to catch.
14:23
22.1.2014
According to our Belarusian Service, a member of the opposition "national resistance" said that one of those who died today is a Belarusian named Mikhail Zhiznevsky. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said they do not have enough information to comment and could not confirm the death.
Originally from Gomel, near the border with Ukraine, Zhiznevsky emigrated in 2005 -- apparently to escape political persecution.
Originally from Gomel, near the border with Ukraine, Zhiznevsky emigrated in 2005 -- apparently to escape political persecution.
14:19
22.1.2014
13:49
22.1.2014
13:45
22.1.2014
According to Interfax, the Cabinet of Ministers has lifted restrictions on the use of water cannons in order to "protect public order." It is currently -9 Celsius in Kyiv.
13:15
22.1.2014
Ukrainian Justice Minister Olena Lukash says at a meeting of diplomats from the EU, Canada and the United States, Ukrainian officials told them not to provide indirect support to "radical forces."
"We deplore the the absence of condemnation, by our foreign colleagues, of the extremism and disorder that have been committed by the opposition," she said.
"We deplore the the absence of condemnation, by our foreign colleagues, of the extremism and disorder that have been committed by the opposition," she said.