Tensions flared on Thursday on Kyiv’s Independence Square, the scene of street protests that toppled a Moscow-backed president in February, when protesters still camped there clashed with city workers who tried to clear away their tents.
The protesters set fire to heaps of tyres, sending clouds of black smoke billowing across the city centre square, known as the Maidan, recalling the demonstrations earlier this year which chased Viktor Yanukovich from power.
Armed riot police moved onto the square as protesters – some of them in combat fatigues and masks and waving clubs – threw bottles and paving bricks at municipal workers who …read more
Source: Voice of America
