Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday that 25 people had been killed after hundreds of riot police officers advanced on antigovernment protesters who mounted a desperate act of defiance in what remained of their all-but-conquered encampment on Independence Square. The Health Ministry, quoted by news agencies, said that 240 people had been injured and that nine of the dead were police officers.
New York Times: 25 deaths are reported in fierce clashes in Kyiv
Anti-government protesters clash with the police as they storm in the main Police City Office in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 18, 2014. Anti-government protesters in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 18 seized the regional administration building and police headquarters as clashes raged in Kiev, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. Some 500 demonstrators stormed the regional administration after bombarding it with stones before taking the control of the local police headquarters in the largely pro-EU city. AFP PHOTO / YURIY DYACHYSHYN
