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o now the well-known Khreshchatyk looks. That its part from Evropeyskaya Square to a Maidan
which is supervised already by security officers. Here some months were barricades. Now them
bore and on this place only police and ambulance car buses. Aside between attacks "Golden eagle"
and further already a front line has a rest. We see as buildings smoke and burn down. Tires
smolder and tents burn down. And in the center of the area there is a scene in the middle
of the tent small town which is stormed already almost by days. Special operation of "Golden
eagle" began on the eve in the evening. Internal troops surrounded a main square of the country
and went on storm of the tent small town which was erected on a Maidan three months ago."
The golden eagle" began to come at once from several parties. By means of armored troop-carriers,
water-cannons, smoke grenades and tear gas. From barricades bottles with Molotov's cocktail
and stones flied. In a night there were some approaches of security officers. Having encountered
resistance they receded. They couldn't smooth out all Maidan in a night. It wasn't possible
such order but all the same the part of the area by the morning passed under control of
the authorities including an independence stele. In the Maidan center all this time
there was a meeting. Leaders of opposition urged people to come to protection of the
tent small town having taken with itself firearms. In a circle of a scene there were some thousand
people of opponents of the power including the woman and elderly people. They sorted
a stone blocks and transferred stones to a front line where there were groups of self-defense
of a Maidan. At night the huge building of the House of Labor unions blazed. It was taken
at the end of November and was used as a staff. Firefighters rescued about forty people but
the building burned out completely. The number of victims of this street war grows. According
to official figures in two days in Kiev twenty six people are killed. The majority from gunshot
wounds. Ten of them revolutionaries other civilians. The correspondent of the Ukrainian
Vesti edition was cruelly killed. Here frames of attack. Later Vyacheslav Yeremeyev died.
Some victims were received by monks of the Mikhaylovsky monastery. It is near a Maidan.
Total number of victims reached eight hundred people from both parties. The amateur camera
recorded to hard wounded employee of "Golden eagle" fell into hands of revolutionaries.
It appeared in hands of the opponents at the House of Labor unions.