UNIAN is evacuated from the center of Kyiv

UNIAN Ukrainian information agency employees are evacuated from an office located on European Square, which is located in the mass riots in Kyiv.

“The office is temporarily closed, the agency’s employees will work remotely,” one of the agency’s employees told RIA Novosti .

The agency’s information tape posts reports that, in connection with the aggravation of the situation in the center of Kyiv, the news of the UNIAN agency may come to interruption.

On Sunday, January 19, in the center of Kyiv, the confrontation between the opposition and the police grew into riots, hundreds of people were injured, there are dead.

Today, January 22, the Berkut special forces spent several attacks on the opposition, who retreated to the European Square. Subsequently, the police returned to their original positions. Now in the center of Kyiv, car tires are burning, thick black smoke rises above the city.

At the end of November 2013, people who entered the protest in the center of Kyiv protested against the suspension of the European integration of Ukraine. The catalyst for more fierce clashes in January 2014 was the package of laws, which was tightening the punishment for unauthorized street actions, slander in the media, hacker attacks on the Internet and generally complicating any protest activity of citizens. Today, at midnight, the laws entered into force.