More than 67 people have been killed in three days of
violence in Ukranian capital city, the Kiev City. So far, more than 500 people
have suffered injuries of which 332 have been hospitalised since Tuesday.
It has been reported that over 22 bodies of other demonstrators
in a camp where medics treat wounded activists.
Moreover, the country's Interior Minister Vitaly
Zakharchenko said that at least 13 police officers have been killed and 67
captured by radical demonstrators since Tuesday.
Zakharchenko also said that police had been issued with
combat weapons and would use them "in accordance with the law" to
defend themselves.
Protests in Kiev began in November after President Viktor
Yanukovych backtracked on a trade deal with the European Union and rather preferred
a $15bn bailout from Russia. They turned violent in mid-January and have been
remarkably escalating this week.
