The New Times Correspondent talked with Berkut Wednesday, January 22, 00:00 (Moscow time) Interview with Colonel of the Interior Ministry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Part 1 Mikhail Dmitrievich Rudenko, Colonel Decoding of the conversation: For these days of confrontation, how many victims do you have? We suffered 40 people. These are military personnel of the internal troops, they received burns of the face of the first and second degree.

The situation in Ukraine is still extremely unstable. Where in the next minute the pendulum will swing, it is impossible to predict. The authorities can make concessions to try to find a peaceful exit from the crisis through negotiations and compromises. And it can orderly suppress protest performances with subsequent point repression.

Kyiv: night from 24 to 25 January On the night of Friday 24 to Saturday January 25, Grushevsky Street looked infernal. The protesters resumed active actions, set fire to the tires again and moved a little forward behind the barricade. They advanced a little, only ten meters, but this change in tactics, in my opinion, is very important - until now, only the “Golden Eagle” began to go forward.