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New barricades are being built in Kyiv
On Wednesday evening, participants in Kyiv protests built new fortifications on Grushevsky Street, where the main clashes with the Berrokut take place. According to the correspondent of "faces", thousands of people participate in the defense of Euromaidan, among them there are many women. At the Dynamo stadium, three rows of barricades are built, between the protesters and the police, the wall of fire from burning tires. For the construction of barricades, branches of trees were drunk, two old cars were driven, tire with wire, and a paid toilet is disassembled. Volunteers distribute food and gauze bandages.
Activists throw the Molotov cocktails and stones at the police, fired at firecrackers. In response, explosions of grenades are heard.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs reports that the flame from the tires on Grushevsky Street spread to the house 4. In addition, it is argued that the protesters defeated the office of the Kyiv television and radio company at Khreshchatyk.
The leaders of the opposition, speaking in Independence Square, called for a warning strike. The action is scheduled for noon on Thursday. “Get out for half an hour or an hour, if possible. Come to the administrations, express your vision, your resistance, peaceful resistance,” Vitaly Klitschko called the leader of the blow.
On Thursday, the second round of negotiations between the leaders of the opposition with President Viktor Yanukovych should take place. In addition to Klitschko, they are involved in the head of the "Fatherland" Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the leader of Freedom Oleg Tyagnibok. Negotiations on Wednesday lasted more than three hours. Klitschko said that he did not hear from Yanukovych any reaction to the requirements of the opposition. The president require the abolition of repressive laws, the appointment of early elections, and government resignation. “Tomorrow, if the president does not meet, we will go on the offensive. There is no other way out,” Klitschko said.
In the afternoon , Golden Eagle cleared the square in front of the Dynamo stadium , pushing the protesters almost to the end of Grushevsky Street. Activists lit tires; The whole street was shrouded in smoke. Under the cover of smoke, the police adjusted the armored personnel carrier. With it, the skeletons of two burned buses dragged it. Later, the security forces retreated to their former positions.
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Four protests died from gunshot wounds during clashes with Berkut. This was reported by Radio Liberty with reference to the coordinator of the medical service of the national resistance headquarters Oleg Musius. At the same time, the police confirm the death of two people. The representative of the Kyiv city police, Alexander Radkevich, said that law enforcement officers do not have firearms and did not use it. One of the dead is 20 -year -old Sergey Nigoyan from the village of Bereznovatovka, Dnipropetrovsk region. He arrived in Kyiv on December 8 and became one of the guards of Euromaidan.
Conflicting messages come about the dead when falling from the colonnade of the Dynamo stadium. "Ukrainian Pravda" reports that two fell from the colonnade, one of which was dropped by the "Berkutians". It was this activist who died on Tuesday. At the same time, the press service of the Department of Health of the Kiev City State Administration agency Interfax-Ukraine reported that the second fallen from Kiev did not receive the second fallen from the colonnade. “There was only one appeal to the hospitals in Kyiv, and this person is alive,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
In total, according to Musius, from 24:00 to 15:00 (17:00 Moscow time), about 300 people turned the environment for medical help. "First of all, they are injuries of the face, injuries of the arms and legs from grenade rupture and rubber bullets. Other injuries are closed traumatic injuries from blows with batons on the head and various parts of the body, bruises of internal organs," he said.
Musiy also said that the special forces were methodically fired at the rubber bullets of medical workers. “The red cross on the back of a medical worker, he provided medical assistance to the victim, turned out to be a target.“ Berkutovets ”shot him three times in his back with rubber bullets,” said the headquarters coordinator.
“Golden Eagle” defeated the item of voluntary medical care - he threw it with light -school grenades, which are very effective in a closed room, shells can be shell -shocked enough, then burst inside, beat the vulture doctors, turned the furniture, beat the wounded and partially took them in an unknown direction, ”the journalist Arkady Babchenko said .
Meanwhile, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine made amendments to the "Rules for the application of special tools in protecting public order", allowing the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to use voduta at minus air temperature. The government also expanded the list of special equipment used in the protection of public order, including manual smoke grenades, manual gas grenades "DREF-2", Light-Shuman grenades "Zarya-2", "Torus-s" and "Flice-M".
The morning attack "Berkut" led to the mobilization of the defenders of Euromaidan. Then about 700 people pulled to the square to the Dynamo stadium. They began to build a broken -up defense of bags with snow, tires, flower beds. "Golden Eagle" went behind the chain of other policemen. Opposite them, a chain of demonstrators lined up, among whom were women and old people. They ashamed the security forces for the performance against the people.
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In the morning, on Wednesday, demonstrators on Grushevsky Street repelled the attack "Berkut". At the time of the assault on the barricades, there were about 50 activists and the same amount of onlookers. At 8 in the morning local time (10 in the morning in Moscow), about 300 Berkutians opposed them. "Golden Eagle" quickly advanced 200-300 meters towards Independence Square.
However, 300-400 oppositionists quickly approached from there. The security forces retreated, shooting off and throwing demonstrators with light -school and pepper grenades. After that, positional battles at the Dynamo stadium began.
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Morning attack "Berkut"
