The real number of people who died during the clashes on the Independence Square (also known as Maidan) and related events is around 780 people, according to the organization of Maidan volunteer doctors.
“As far as we know, 780 people have died. This number includes about
300 people who disappeared from hospitals (emergency hospitals, other
medical institutions), they were taken away and their bodies were burned
in crematoria. These people are missing, they are being searched for,
but no one can find them… There were around 200 wounded in the fourth
to eighth floors of the Trade Unions House, they could not move
independently, some of them could not see, some had brain injuries –
they were burned alive. Corpses were taken from there [Trade Unions
House] in black VW vans without number plates to an unknown
destination,” a medical volunteer, Anastasiya Polischuk, said at a
briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.
This figure includes around 20 dead police, Berkut and other special
purpose unit officers. “The rest are ‘the heavenly hundred’, about whom
everyone knows and people who were found outside Maidan – in the woods
outside the city – many of them have not been identified by the police
as Maidan activists,” she said.
Over a half of the dead went through volunteer doctors, so they have
no doubts in the numbers announced, Polischuk said. Maidan volunteer
doctors believe the Ukrainian authorities intentionally concealed the
real number of casualties.
