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Titolo: Ukraine protests: Protesters die as riot police fight running battles on streets of Kiev

la responsabilità di questo macello ricada su Putin e il governo 
fantoccio filo-russo dell'Ucraina...
 
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10590921/Ukraine-protests-Protesters-die-as-riot-police-fight-running-battles-on-streets-of-Kiev.html
 
 
Ukraine protests: Protesters die as riot police fight running battles on 
streets of Kiev
Three days of clashes in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, leave up to five 
people dead and the opposition movement that has challenged President 
Viktor Yanukovych’s control at risk of disintegration
 
By Roland Oliphant, Kiev9:50PM GMT 22 Jan 2014
A burning fug of teargas mingled with the acrid black smoke of blazing 
tyres hung over the streets of Kiev on Wednesday night as protesters and 
police battled for control of the city’s historic centre.
Three days of clashes have left up to five people dead, parts of the 
Ukrainian capital resembling a medieval battlefield and the opposition 
movement that has challenged President Viktor Yanukovych’s control at 
risk of disintegration.
“The time for talking is over. After a law like that what can we do? We 
have to defend ourselves,” said Dmitry, a 29-year-old plumber and Kiev 
native who described himself as a member of the Right Sector group that 
has been at the heart of street fighting since Sunday.
 
Wearing a hard hat and clothed in a British army-surplus combat jacket 
criss-crossed by the strap of his gas mask case and a baldric from which 
a chair leg hung like a sword, he was, as he cheerfully admitted, in 
breach of several provisions.
 
The law he was referring to is a package of legislation – forced through 
the Ukrainian parliament last week and brought into force on Wednesday – 
that effectively criminalises many of the public protest tactics the 
pro-European opposition has used during its hitherto peaceful struggle 
with the government.
Like many in the younger, angrier element of protesters at the centre of 
the street battles, Dmitry had no qualms about the violence. “If the 
police wanted to support the people, they would have come over by now,” 
he said.
It was that animosity, mixed with frustration at the political 
opposition’s perceived failure of leadership, that exploded on Sunday 
when police blocked the route of demonstrators as they tried to march up 
Grushevsky Street toward parliament, setting off two days of the worst 
political violence Ukraine has seen since becoming independent.
 
According to a field hospital set up by protesters, five activists were 
killed and 300 wounded on Wednesday.
Ukrainian officials confirmed that two protesters had died of gunshot 
wounds and they were investigating whether police were responsible.
Doctors at the occupied government building where anti-government 
protesters have been based for the past two months said the two were 
killed by shots fired by police marksmen between 6am and 8am. The first 
was killed by rubber bullets, but they said that they were almost 
certain that the second man was killed by a live round.
Ukrainianskaya Pravda, a newspaper, identified one of the shot men as 
Sergei Nigoyan, a 20-year-old activist from Dnipropetrovsk. He 
reportedly died from four wounds to the head and neck
 
The deaths brought a new and dangerous peak in tensions after two months 
of protests at the government’s failure – under Russian pressure – to 
sign a deal for closer integration with the European Union.
They provoked a vicious running battle in which police deployed an 
armoured personnel carrier for the first time since the clashes began.
As massed officers moved in firing a hail of rubber bullets, flash-bangs 
and tear gas grenades to evict the protesters, they were met with a 
desperate flurry of petrol bombs and cobble stones.
Both sides yelled obscenities at one another. When a petrol bomb crashed 
into a police phalanx, engulfing a blue-camouflaged figure in flames, a 
cheer went up. Police have taken to throwing them back rather than 
putting them out.
By nightfall, the city was still echoing to the explosion of noise 
grenades. The Ukrainian authorities ordered all government offices and 
businesses in central Kiev to close early as thousands of protesters 
flooded into Independence Square in anticipation of a Tiananmen-style 
crackdown.
 
Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s prime minister, denied allegations that two of 
the men who died had been killed by live rounds saying that the police 
were not carrying such ammunition. He issued what appeared to be an 
ultimatum to opposition leaders, demanding that they either call on 
demonstrators to stop or “claim responsibility for these actions.”
The three main opposition leaders rejected compromise, issuing a joint 
statement demanding the immediate withdrawal of troops and the 
resignation of the interior minister for authorising the crackdown.
In a sign that politicians are now being dragged along by events, two of 
the opposition’s most prominent leaders indicated that they may join the 
protesters.
Vitaly Klitschko, the former world champion boxer and leader of the Udar 
party, told a crowd in Independence Square: “If I have to go (on to the 
streets) under bullets, I shall go there under bullets. Tomorrow if the 
president does not respond ... then we will go on the offensive.”
Arseny Yatsenyuk, of the Fatherland Our Ukraine party, told protesters: 
“Tomorrow we will go forward together. If there will be a bullet in the 
forehead, so be it. It will be honest, just and brave action.” World 
powers called for calm. Baroness Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, 
“condemned” the violence and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign 
minister, said the situation was “out of control”.

 la responsabilità di questo macello ricada
 
bello il congiuntivo esortativo, dell'imperialista con le corna rotte, che pensa che basta proclamare di voler spezzare le reni a Putin per riuscirci, :D

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ecco l'avvocato di Putin :-))