18 February 2014

The situation has escalated. Clashes between protesters and police resumed, resulting in the deaths of dozens of people. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, from February 18 to February 21, 77 people died in Kyiv, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 16 policemen died, 363 people were hospitalized. The radicals burned cars and buses, broke into administrative buildings, burned tires, and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at policemen. Also, the demonstrators burned 2 armored personnel carriers. The militants of the “Right Sector” seized the building of the headquarters of the Party of Regions in Kyiv. Two men were brutally murdered. One was closed in the basement, a Molotov cocktail was thrown there, and he died from suffocation and burns. Another was smashed in the head and thrown down a flight of stairs. The women in the building were stripped to a half-naked state, painted on their backs with their symbols and slogans, and driven out into the street in this form. Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Party of Regions D. Svyatash was severely beaten.