Monday 24 February 2014

Ukraine's new leaders order arrest of President Yanukovych

Ukraine's acting interior minister announced Monday that an arrest warrant had been issued for that country's president, Viktor Yanukovych.

In a statement on his official Facebook page, Arsen Avakhov wrote that Yanukovych and several other officials were wanted on charges of "mass killing of civilians" in violence that engulfed Ukraine's capital city, Kiev, earlier this week. At least 82 people, most of them protesters, were killed in clashes with members of the police and security forces. Some of the dead were shot by snipers in strategic positions overlooking the main protest camp in Kiev's Independence Square.

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