Berkut fighters stom Kyiv city council building
The special police department Berkut started an operation on liberation the city council building from the protesters.
They cut off the electricity in the building. According to UNIAN, Euromaidan activists who were inside the building barricaded themselves.
Singer Ruslana on the stage is urging the police not to follow the vicious orders of the authorities. "We are peaceful people. Don't follow the orders," Maidan is chanting. "Kyiv, rise!" Ruslana calls.
Meanwhile, the EU representation in Ukraine is trying to contact the law-enforcement authorities in order to prevent forcible dispersal of Maidan. This has been informed by Ukrainskaya Pravda with a reference to the embassy's representative David Stupik. "We admire the peaceful bravery and calm of Maidan demonstrators," he underlined.
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