In a snowy, half-filled car park in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, a group of masked men armed with clubs surge toward a crowd of anti-government protesters, weapons raised. As the protesters scatter, the men grab one straggler and hurl him to the ground, kicking his ribs and bloodying his face. Then, they pick him up and haul him off.
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: Anti-government protesters holding shields and battons march around the Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev on February 6, 2014. Ukraine's unrest erupted in November 2013 after President Viktor Yanukovych rejected an association agreement with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Moscow, and the turmoil has now become an all-out movement to oust him. The European Union's foreign policy chief on February 5 offered a downbeat assessment of the crisis in Ukraine after talks with the president while Russia warned Kiev it would only release bailout money if stuck to its old policies.AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
