Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel
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Updates:
***A military base in the western city of Lvov has been seized by rioters, Ukrainian news website UA-RU.info reports. The protesters agreed with the military that troops would leave the base without weapons. Weapons warehouses are now being sealed. A fire is engulfing the barrack***
URGENT: Kyiv Trade Unions building is on fire, Berkut inside, attacking people. People are jumping from the windows.
Lviv Attorney General office is seized, people setting criminal files on fire.
People are trapped on 9th floor of Trade Union building, which was deliberately set on fire by Berkut.
President will adress the nation …. VERY SOON
Olga Bogonolets: in Kyiv hospitals stsy around 1000 injured from #Euromaidan
REUTERS: HEADQUARTERS OF UKRAINIAN OPPOSITION IN KIEV INDEPENDENCE SQUARE IS ON FIRE – TV
Western Ukraine Launched General Mobilization to Support Kyiv: http://euromaidanpr.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/western-ukraine-launched-general-mobilization-to-support-kyiv/
HromadskeTV reporting police in 2 western Ukrainian cities have switched allegiances to side of the #euromaidan protesters
Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM 7mNot to be forgotten: In western #Ukraine, protesters storming buildings, raiding weapons cabinets in at least one police HQ, says @tsnua.
20 dead and around 500 protestors injured according to the doctors of #maidan
Sniper shoots opposition leader while on stage.
Batkivshchyna deputy leader Oleksandr Turchinov wounded by gunfire in #Kyiv, reports TV channel 24
Ominous – Crimean parliament calls events in Ukraine beginning of “civil war,” reserves right to “urge residents to defend their autonomy.”
French TV says now 21 dead – 8 policeman and 13 rioters
Around 300 rioters have surrounded the local administration building and police department in Ukraine’s western city of Ternopol, Unian reported. Protesters threw bricks at the police department windows and demanded that officers evacuate the building. As policemen began making their way out through the back exit, rioters continued to throw rocks and chased them down the street. There are reports that a person threw three smoke bombs and grenades.
Militia HQ in Ternopil set afire. Similar reports from other cities. Maidan is national revolution @euromaidan @khanasV @sitemaidan_eng
Vitali Klitschko arrives at Ukraine President HQ’s for talks, earlier Yanukovich reportedly had telephone conversation with Joe Biden
KYIV – DEATH TOLL IN CLASHES RISING TO 19, DOCTOR TELLS @BILD
Protesters set APC on fire with Molotov Cocktails: See Below
Hundreds of young rioters in the western Ukrainian city of Lvov have seized the regional administration building and are storming the Lvov Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Interfax reported.
Six policemen died of gunshot wounds in #Kiev – Interior Ministry
4 Police dead
Crimean parliament chief tells Russian state TV between 2,500-5,000 foreign “mercenaries” on #euromaidan from all over former Soviet Union – Country in de-facto state of civil war
Activists: 15 killed!
BREAKING: 3 policemen confirmed dead in #Kiev, 135 taken to hospital, 35 badly injured
#protesters storming #administrative buildings in #Ternopil and #Lviv in solidarity with #euromaidan #Kiev #Ukraine
THIRD POLICEMAN DIES IN KIEV
Emergency message US Embassy Kiev to Americans: Remain indoors. Ukrainian Security “may take extraordinary measures”
Canadian embassy has been seized by armed group
#BREAKING Protesters storm the Canadian Embassy in Kiev
UKRAINE INTERIOR MINISTRY SAYS 73 POLICEMEN INJURED, 3 IN COMA
Rumors in Russian social media that #Ukraine to close all airports and borders from midnight #Euromaidan
Two Kiev police officers dead, 18 taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, 22 in serious condition.
Latest figures: 2 police and 7 protesters killed in Kiev today. – Interfax EuroMaidan
Ukrainians withdraw cash from ATMs in Kiev. It’s getting worse every hour
*UKRAINE SAYS 37 POLICEMAN INJURED IN CLASHES WITH PROTESTERS
Two jet aircrafts, presumably military, have appeared over Maidan in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, the mass media report
Second policeman dies in Kiev – Ministry
CZECH DIPLOMATS EVACUATED FROM KIEV
Ukraine: The death toll is likely to increase, as opposition leader #Lutsenko reported that he has seen at least 10 corpses #Kiev #maidan
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