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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

LIVE UPDATES: Kiev fierce clashes: govt and opposition talks fail, new wave of unrest in Ukraine.



Twenty-five people have been killed in clashes between rioters and police in Kiev by 6 am local time on Wednesday, the Ukrainian press office said.

"Twenty-five people have died: eight of them after hospitalization in city healthcare institutions, four at an Interior Ministry hospital, 13 dead were delivered to the Kiev city clinical bureau of forensic medicine," a spokesperson said. A total of 351 people who were injured during clashes in the city center sought medical assistance, according to Kiev paramedic brigades and healthcare institutions.

  • 11:46
    "Border guards have been trying to divert transport vehicles to other checkpoints," the spokesperson said.
  • 11:46
    Already several dozen trucks are queuing on the spot, the border agency said.
  • 11:45
    The people put tires and other objects on the road thus blocking traffic both to Poland and Ukraine.
  • 11:45
    In particular, about 40 people blocked the road several hundred meters from the Krakovets checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Polish border, a spokesperson said.
  • 11:45
    Ukrainian rioters have begun blocking checkpoints on the country's border with Poland, the State Border Service said.
  • 11:44
    Traffic is suspended until further notice, until the Kiev situation has stabilized, the Kiev operative staff for sustainable living reported.
  • 11:44
    The Kiev metro will not open on Wednesday because of the persisting terror attack threat.
  • 11:43
    A journalist of the Vesti newspaper, Vyacheslav Veremei, has been killed during the street clashes in Kiev, the Medichna Varta Medical Association reported Wednesday on its Facebook page.
  • 11:43
    "Twenty five people have died: eight of them after having been hospitalized in city hospitals (including a journalist from “Vesti” newspaper), and four in the hospital of the Interior Ministry. Thirteen victims have been conveyed to the Kiev city clinical bureau of forensic medical examination," the Ministry of Health reports.
  • 11:42
    Ukraine's Ministry of Health reports that the number of victims of the riots in Kiev has reached 25 people.

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