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Henry: I've already seen several bodies, which have definitely been hit by gunshot wounds. One guy was wearing a Kevlar vest but without the armour plate, there was a huge hole in it with blood surrounding it. They draped the bodies in a Ukrainian flag. They were young men, possibly in their mid-twenties. Earlier, some protesters were shot when they were charging towards some police vans.


At about 8AM, the protesters re-took the parts of Independence Square that police had withdrawn from as part of the truce. In retaliation to that, the police opened fire. I have been shown rounds from handguns. There are lots of worried people; these people cannot fight against AK-47s. They have shields and clubs. We haven’t seen any guns on the protesting side. That said, there are reports that outside of Kiev a large number of weapons were seized by protesters who stormed government buildings.
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I am currently outside Hotel Ukraine on Instytutska Street [next to Independence Square] and there is a sniper firing pot shots. [Sound of a gunshot] Yup, that was another one. There are some barricades near the hotel and there are only a couple of protesters on them – I think they’re basically pinned down. The hotel itself is basically like a makeshift triage centre and a morgue right now. Medics here have counted 15 dead, who they think have been shot by snipers.In the lobby of the hotel you've got the wounded being assessed and rushed to hospital and a row of dead bodies lined up, covered in shrouds. When the wounded started coming into the hospital, the doctors who happened to be staying there couldn't treat them, had no equipment to deal with serious bleeding.

We saw about 20 captured policemen being brought into one of the protester's tents – this is towards the City Hall and there are a bunch of tents where the protesters sleep. They all looked very young. They were in their very early twenties and some of them were wounded. They were surrounded by protesters who were spitting on them, trying to punch them, but there were other protesters trying to stop that. And there were priests there trying to keep the peace.
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I think civil war is a dangerous term, but it is scary. People are being killed in the street – it's terribly dark. People thought that line had been crossed back in January when four protesters had been killed. Then things calmed down, the anti-protest law was repealed, the Prime Minister resigned and the amnesty law came into place and that was a good thing. That has gone out of the window. There is a call for a snap election, but as of yet the government isn’t moving towards that. I think the police need to pull back because the protesters aren’t going to leave – that is pretty damn clear. The only way to remove these people is by force.Thanks, Henry. Stay safe.


