EuroMaidan Revolution
Economist: A new and dark chapter in Ukraine
For three days, the situation on Kiev’s Hrushevsky Street had smacked of a kind of collective madness. During the fiercest clashes on the night of January 19th, leaderless protesters fought riot police with batons and shields made out of stolen pieces of the adjacent Dynamo stadium. A row of police buses was torched in the process.
The buses formed a barrier behind which the protesters then dug in, throwing Molotov cocktails and paving stones at riot police on the other side. The police fired the same things back, plus tear gas canisters, sound grenades and rubber bullets. It now looks as though they are no longer firing only rubber bullets.