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The Ukrainian revolution of February 2014.
Anti-government protesters carry the injured during clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police in central Kiev on February 20, 2014. Ukraine's brittle truce shattered on February 20 in fierce clashes between baton-wielding protesters and riot police that claimed at least 70 lives just as EU envoys were holding crisis talks with the embattled president. Bodies of anti-government demonstrators lay amid smouldering debris after masked protesters hurling Molotov cocktails and stones forced gun-toting police from Kiev's iconic Independence Square the epicentre of the ex-Soviet country's three month old crisis.
Author: Alfred Yaghobzadeh
Alfred Yaghobzadeh
Published in: The Ukrainian Revolution of February 2014