>reportedly police snipers are shooting at anything that moves to leave the Euromaiden positions.
>at least seven protesters confirmed dead and shot by police.
>Berkut snipers are reportedly using the Ukraina Hotel as a roost.
>reportedly, the EU ministers have left Ukraine due to security concerns.
>Kievpost is refreshmonkeyed or the internet has been cut there.
>police have siezed weapons being carried by passengers on the Lviv to Kiev train.
>Activists detained several "titushok" armed with Kalashnikovs
>Protesters are attempting to restore the original maiden barricades.
>reportedly 35 dead. 3 on Khreschatyk. 10 at hotel Ukraina. 15 at Kazatsky hotel. 7 at post office
>reportedly enough Party of regions deputies have resigned that the government is afraid to call a parlimentary session today.
>French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius states that the Ukranians should conduct a round of elections before the situation disintegrate further.
>bullets with more penetration than the vests protesters got their hands on are rated to have been used reportedly.
>Berkut are allegedly targeting protester medics.

>Deal would in theory bring economic prosperity and Ukraine closer to eligibility of candidacy for joining EU
>EU deal went cold, Ukrainian presidential decision
>Ukrainian citizens protest
>Ukrainian government ponders trade deals with Russia
>Protests continue, EU deal is all but withdrawn by EU
>Police crack down on protests, shotguns, etc. Wounded
>Ukrainian government passes shitty laws making protests illegal
>Ukrainian government makes deals with Russians for economic/political reasons
>Mass text in Kiev around protest area
>Implications in texts are everyone is already found guilty and will be collected for prison time
>Ukrainians continue to protest
>Berkut continues suppression tactics
>Protests become riot, Many clanks were had
>Tire fire between clankers and police
>Molotovs and fighting stops long enough to put out a fire in an innocent bystanders house
>Ukrainian citizens start throwing the road at the police
>Police have been fairly restrained now that international attention is on it
>Ceasefire for negotiations
>Battle priests hold the line between police and clankers, no clanks were had.
>Tanks are 30 minutes out (30 hours ago)
>Everyone wants peace but no one can agree to the all the terms, all the time
>There was a truce, someone farted wrong.
>BBC puts up small news post about this on 23rd
>Rabbit of revolution seen on Spilno stream
>US state department suspends Ukraine government visas and writes in support of protesters
>Some cops were fought with, some clankers may have been arrested
>President and "leaders" of protesters agreed to terms but has yet to deliver.
>Foreign ambassadors arrived, said clankers are peaceful and "beasts" are responsible for the violence.
>unconfirmed reports of Spetznaz being deployed, Russia has denied this.
>Unrest and anti government demonstration is beginning to spread to other parts of Ukraine now.

>Protesters in Kiev are beginning to splinter into factions.
>berkut numbers in Kiev increasing and reported rumbles of legislation to bring martial law into effect.
>Protesters have taken and retreated (but stand vigil over) the Ukrainian Justice Ministry building.
>Rumbles of legislation to create an internet blackout.
>Confirmed reports of at least one family being arrested/taken hostage by government forces as presumed political bargaining chips.
>Reports of the UN now getting involved and sending in mediators.
>Reports indicate there is dissent within the government ranks calling the anti protest laws a "mistake"
>Rivne police chief has defected to protester side.
>Ukrainian government has agreed to repeal the anti protest laws
>EU is reportedly alarmed regarding the Ukrainian considerations towards martial law.
>Ukrainian police were stabbed in the city of Herson, two of the wounded are in the hospital, and the assailants (university students) are in custody.
>One of the stabbed police officers died.
>9 of the 12 anti protest laws have been repealed.
>Ukrainian Prime minister has resigned along with his entire cabinet.
>There are still rumblings of an attempt to declare martial law.
>In the city of Lvov activists have agreed to vacate captured government buildings.
>resignation of the prime minister and the repeal of the laws has not cooled things off yet.
>Canadians have said no to Ukrainian officials entering Canada.
>Uncle Joe (Biden) has urged Ukraine's president sign off on the repeal of the anti protest laws.
>many less clankers in kiev.
>Factioning and infighting in Lvov overnight.
>Factions in protesters, one of them is Freedom.
>We STALKER now?
>damage estimates to Kiev are up to 2.5 million USD.
>Amnesty bill introduced into Ukrainian parliament
>More infighting among protesters, they're shooting at each other now it seems
>Court orders for arrests on detainees in Zaporozhsky region

>Parliament considers extending session to work on amnesty laws.
>EU calls for an end to the violence and intimidation from all sides.
>Ukrainian president goes to Parliament.
>Parliament has voted to adopt the amnesty laws on the condition protesters remove themselves from the government buildings.
>Freedom decides to stay at the barricades.
>German Chancellor has asked Putin to promote a "constructive dialogue"...
>Kremlin says Nyet to outside interference.
>US is prepping finacial sanctions against Ukrainian leaders aand protest leaders to go into effect if the violence escalates.
>Ukrainian president takes sick leave
>Lenin statue is toppled by protesters
>Protesters are commenting on the EU making a mistake about not including joining prospects in trade deal
>some EU committee is pissed about human rights violations in the Ukraine
>Shits on fire....Again. 23 cars were burned overnight in Kiev.
>Ukrainian ministry is looking into reports of right wing extremist group (Pravy Sektor) that may or may not have killed protesters at the barricades.
>234 protesters detained, 140 held for further questioning, and a total of 1'231 activists have recieved medical treatment.
>Ukrainian parliment prepares to vote on law to "liquidate" the Berkut.
>5 protestors now under house arrest
>President is now saying all of the obligations have been met.
>Clankers will not be dismantling the barricades for the time being.
>Anti Gov. Protesters leave seized buildings in Lvov
>Udar faction says that it feels the government has not fufilled it's obligations to regulate the situation.
>Ukrainian president has been hospitalized with reportedly flu like symptoms. Despite his sickness he was continuing to work at legislative sessions.
>The Ukraine will be sending a delegation to the 50th Munich Security Conference to take part in discussions about security concerns around the world. Recently added to the docket for discussion, the events in the Ukraine

>John Kerry intends to meet with the opposition leadership in the upcoming future.
>Dmitry Bulatov (anti government activist leader), turns up after being missing for over a week.
>he was tortured, possibly by Russians.
>UN Human rights commission is seeking an independent inquisition about the violence and deaths in Ukraine.
>John Kerry: "the concessions by the Ukrainian government are insufficient, do more mmkay."
>Activists of Pravy Sektor want renewed negotiations, a seat at the negotiating table or they start lobbing molotovs again.
>Ukrainian president signs amnesty bills and the repeal of the laws that the parliament repealed.
>Reportedly the protests and violence were organized. According to Ukrainian officials who had seized computers belonging to Batkicschina opposition group.
>Reportedly everything was planned out from the get-go. In the files, the use of force was considered.
>Reportedly police are attempting to arrest Dmitry Bulatov in his hospital bed.
>three protesters who died, may have been killed by police according to an Interior Ministry investigation. Earlier it has been concluded they were killed by bullets fired from a hunting rifle.
>The Ukrainian army is not helping police secure Independence square as earlier reported by state run news agencies.
>List of weapons used against police: Stone, catapults, Molotovs and now a potato cannon.
>Opposition leader of Batkivshchina (fatherland) party has met with Germany's president during the Munich Security Conference.
>Two men were arrested under suspicion of planning to attack a power station in Eastern Ukraine.
>In their possession were two grenades, WWII era ammunition, computer equipment and two blocks of tnt.
>Ukraine's interior ministry has launched a criminal investigation into the abduction of Dmitry Bulatov, citing is as possibly staged

>Two masked men raided and sabotaged a boiler station servicing government buildings Lvov during a cold snap that dropped temperatures to -15 degrees Celsius.
>A Canadian embassy car was torched in Kiev overnight. Reports are allegedly the perpetrators are torching plates issued in "Anti-government leaning" Western Ukraine
>A plainclothes officer was beaten into a concussion in the Kiev city admin offices.
>The protesters took his ID and personal belongings.
>Activists from the "party of Regions" have announced the creation of the "Ukrainsky Front" to "clear out occupiers from Ukrainian soil" in the city of Kharkov.
>A man suspected of being pro government was beaten and harassed in opposition controlled territory.
>His name, face and fate are presently unknown.
>Amnesty international has urged Ukrainian officials to investigate the abduction of Dmitry Bulatov, calling what he endured as "barbaric".
>Security Service of Ukraine is investigating allegations of an attempted coup d'etat implicated in computer servers belonging to party Batkicshachina (Fatherland).
>UN considering possible peacekeeping mission in Ukraine if the situation remains at a deadlock. (I'm paraphrasing polspeak here, so take it with a grain of salt)
>Reportedly the Interior Ministry is being obstructed in its investigation of Dmitry Bulatov's abduction by some hospital staff and parliamentarians.
>The investigation team, consisting of 20 officers has not been allowed to question Butalov despite his condiition allowing testimony and interviews to media.
>"repeated attempts by investigators to communicate with the victim were prevented by either members of parliament or the doctors,” Chinchina (Chief of the Investigation Department) said. “Such actions may indicate a desire to prolong the investigation or lack of interest in ascertaining the truth.”

>Amnesty laws have come into force, government and opposition are in agreement of this if protesters/rioters vacate government buildings and roads.
>This amnesty is not available to those who have committed kidnapping and murder.
>opposition leaders held talks with EU policy makers regarding reforms in Ukraine, investigationof crimes etc, and a proposal to the return to the 2004 Ukrainian constitution
>A suspected arsonist has been captured. A Georgian (the country dammit) citizen was apprehendedin the commission of a crime. His testimony implies he was to be paid for setting fire to cars by the National Resistance.
>The opposition has previous claims that protester cars were being set on fire.
>The Ukrainian opposition is ready to forma a new government and take full responsibility for the situation.
>For fucks sake I can't keep track of all these factions.
>activists in Kieve installed a gold painted toilet on a pedestal that had previously held a Lenin statue.
>Ukraine president Yanukovish has stated he is ready for early presidential elections if peacetalks yield no results.
> "The president said that ‘if we the politicians are not be able to find a solution …. then theonly democratic way to resolve this situation is early elections,’”
>Tanks are still 30 minutes out, but they ran out of fuel. No forceful action or state of emergency declaration is being considered at this time.
>two weeks of relative peaceful clanking
>on 2/18 a march on government buildings occurred followed by Berkut zerg rushing the understaffed barricades, penning the protesters into the square
>Berkut and government forces begin tearing down original barricades
>protesters immediately begin rebuilding fortifications and start a new tire fire.
>Descent into civil war beginning as Berkut and protester clash with more fervor.
>After a few hours there are close to 30 thousand protesters now in the square compared to 10 thousand police.

>Credit Union Bank on fire, people jumping out windows to get away
>APC was in the middle of ramming a fresh barricade but that plan went out the window due to a hail of molotov's.
>At least 6 policeman have been confirmed dead from gun shot wounds for the last 12 hours of fighting.
>at least 25 dead from the fighting on the 18th and thousands injured.
>reportedly there are 300-500 government hired thugs wandering around with orders to wreck shit.
>Protesters have taken over police headquarters in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.
>ammunition and weapons reportedly stolen for Lvan-Frankivsk police department
>US or Russian intervention is reportedly on the table.
>Putin loaned out 2 billion (of 15 billion) to the Ukrainian government.
>Polish leader urging for peace but Ukrainian leader has been unresponsive to outside forces and protest leaders.
>Reportedly protesters took a military compound outside of Kiev and torched the barracks and have the armory sealed.
>Tanks still 30 minutes out.
>Eu is still ready to sign the association agreement with Ukraine (surprising but slightly relevant.)
>trade union house was still on fire this morning (19th), don't see an update saying it's out so assume it is still on fire.
>Ukrainian special services has begun anti terrorism operations.
>Canada has closed its embassy in Kiev.
>European investment bank has suspended its activities in Ukraine.
>Poland has effectively closed it's border with Ukraine.
>protesters in L'viv have artillery but no munitions
>President Yanukovych has pledged "there will be no crackdown on the protesters in Independence Square". What actually happens remains to be seen.
>death toll now at 28.
>They caught the Berkut sniper in the square!
>US has denied visa assurance to 20 senior Ukrainian officials.
>Ukranian parliment is now evacuating from Kiev.
>Crimea activists burned a bus with "titushkamy", en route to

>Acting Interior Minister Zakharchenko announced that combat weapons had been provided to police, stating, "We signed relevant orders as part of the Antiterrorist Center's work: the law enforcement officials have been provided with combat weapons, and they will be used in line with the law on police,"
>Ukraine police join protesters