page_title: 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots / Casualties / Protesters / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Silhouettes of victims painted on a sidewalk a year after the riots.
context_page_description: In response to anti-protest laws in Ukraine, a standoff between protesters and police began on 19 January 2014 that was precipitated by a series of riots in central Kiev on Hrushevsky Street, outside Dynamo Stadium and adjacent to the ongoing Euromaidan protests.
  During a Euromaidan rally which gathered up to 200,000 protesters, participants marched on the Verkhovna Rada and were met by police cordons. Following a tense stand-off, violence started as police confronted protesters. Protesters erected blockades to prevent the movement of government forces. Four protesters were confirmed as having died in clashes with police, three of whom were shot.
  On 28 January 2014, 9 of the 12 anti-protest laws were repealed and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov tendered his resignation and a bill offering amnesty to arrested and charged protesters was issued. On 14 February 2014, groups responsible for organizing the standoff agreed to partially unblock the street to restore traffic, but maintain the barricades and ongoing protests. Following the amnesty of protesters on 16 February 2014, police and protesters mutually receded while allowing a corridor for traffic.
context_section_description: On 21 January, the initial report indicated the first death occurred after a 22-year-old man fell from atop the 13-metre high colonnade in front of Dynamo Stadium while confronted by Berkut police, and suffered fractures to his spine's cervical vertebrae. Reports of the incident debate on whether the man jumped from the building to flee the beating, fell, or if he was pushed by police. Later reports caused confusion after it was reported by medical staff that an additional man, 43 years old, fell from the roof, but survived; however, he fell fixing an antenna and was not on Hrushevskoho.
  In the early morning of 22 January, police gunfire killed Serhiy Nigoyan, a 20-year-old ethnic Armenian Euromaidan participant from Dnipropetrovsk, while he was climbing the barricades in the conflict zone acting as security. It was reported he received four gunshot wounds, including to the head, and died on the scene before being taken to hospital.
  Also killed was Belarusian citizen and UNA-UNSO member Mikhail "Loki" Zhyznewski, who was shot dead by police by a sniper rifle. Forensics experts found that Nihoyan was killed with buckshot and Zhyznevsky with a rifle bullet, while medics confirmed the bullet wounds to be from firearms such as the Dragunov sniper rifle (7.62 mm) and possibly a Makarov handgun (9mm).
  Two other shooting victims were announced by Euromaidan medical service coordinators by Wednesday evening, based on TV footage in which police were seen dragging motionless bodies to their side of the fighting lines. These alleged deaths were not confirmed. On 25 January, Roman Senyk died in a Kiev hospital after being wounded in the chest in the Hrushevskoho Street riots on 22 January.
  A report published on 25 January by Armament Research Services, a specialty arms and munitions consultancy in Perth, Australia, says the mysterious cufflink-shaped projectiles presumably fired by riot police on Hrushevskoho Street at protesters during clashes this week are not meant for riot control, but for stopping vehicles, busting through doors and piercing armor. The bullets, writes Jenzen-Jones, who specializes in Eastern bloc weapons, are special armor-piercing 12-gauge shotgun projectiles, likely developed and produced by the Spetstekhnika (Specialized Equipment) design bureau, a facility located in Kiev and associated with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
  On 28 January, 52-year-old Bohdan Kalyniak died in hospital of pneumonia as a result of police water cannons being used against protestors in sub-freezing temperatures during clashes on Hrushevskoho Street.
  On 29 January two men, one younger and one older, were shot on Hrushevskoho Street and brought to a Kiev hospital. The latter died from the gunshot wounds the following day.
caption: Silhouette of a victim painted on a sidewalk in Hrushevskoho Street, one year after the clashes
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