The document is a collection of photos from news sources documenting protests and clashes in Kiev, Ukraine between February 1st and 19th, 2014. It shows protesters initially erecting and maintaining barricades, and then engaging in increasingly violent clashes with police over those weeks as the death toll rises and the protests escalate. Locations of clashes included Independence Square in Kiev as well as other cities like Lviv.
1. UKRAINE
Battle in Kiev
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Feb. 1, 2014. Protesters stand guard near one of the
barricade during the continuing protest in Kiev, Ukraine.
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People gather on a barricade erected by anti-government protesters
in Kiev, February 2, 2014. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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A boy holds a baton and a shield featuring a graffiti of Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovich at a barricade of anti-government
protesters in Kiev, February 2, 2014. The writing on the shield
reads, "Get Out!". REUTERS/Thomas Peter
February 20, 2014
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5. Feb. 3, 2014. A protester is reflected in part of a mirror near a
barricade during the continuing protests in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Anti-government protesters warm themselves by a stove at a barricade in Kiev,
February 3, 2014. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich returned to work on
Monday, four days after going on sick leave, according to a statement posted on
the presidential website. Yanukovich faces a serious crisis and widespread
opposition protests. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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: Riot police stand in a cordon facing a barricade of anti-government protesters in Kiev, February 5, 2014.The confrontation between opposition-led
protesters and the government of President Viktor Yanukovich, and a refusal to agree a compromise, is weighing on the Ukrainian economy, acting prime
minister Serhiy Arbuzov said. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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Ukrainian anti-government protesters Bogdan (2nd L),
21, and Yulia, 25, get married during their wedding
ceremony in a city municipality building occupied by
anti-government protesters in Kiev, February 5,
2014. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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Feb. 5, 2014. An anti-government protester welds steel
structures at a barricade in Independence Square.
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Police troops stand guard during an anti-government rally near the
parliament building in Kiev, February 6, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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11. Feb.
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Feb. 9, 2014. A woman attends a mass rally of the
opposition on Independence Square in Kiev.
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12. Feb.
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Feb. 10, 2014. A girl plays the piano
on the barricades on Grushevskogo
Street, Kiev, Ukraine.
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Anatoli, a 19-year-old student from the town of Dnepropetrovsk, poses for a picture at the barricades in Kiev, February 10, 2014. "I'm against the current
rule, we are protecting our rights. I've been here for 2 weeks already. I will achieve the resignation of the authorities, in order for life to settle and justice to
work for all," Anatoli said to Reuters.REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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Feb. 11, 2014. Riot police stand behind crosses installed by antigovernment protesters in memory of the people who have died and
went missing during clashes in Ukraine, near the barricades in Kiev.
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15. : A priest speaks through a megaphone to riot
police and anti-government protesters at the
site of recent clashes in Kiev, Ukraine, February
12, 2014. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin
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16. A bulldozer removes barricades at the site of recent clashes with
riot police in Kiev February 16, 2014. Scores of Ukrainian antigovernment protesters ended a two-month-old occupation of city
hall in the capital Kiev on Sunday to meet a government amnesty
offer. REUTERS/Vlad Sodel
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An anti-government protester removes barricades at the site of recent
clashes with riot police in Kiev February 16, 2014. Ukrainian antigovernment protesters ended a two-month-old occupation of city hall
in the capital Kiev on Sunday to meet an amnesty offer aimed at easing
a stand-off over President Viktor Yanukovich's
rule. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin
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16 , 2014
A man with smoke bombs during anti-government
protesters participate in a rally before the Attorney
General's building in Kyiv, Ukraine. Protesters equipped
with shields and sticks demanding the government stop
prosecuting cases aimed at anti-government activists
engaged in skirmishes with police
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20. Ukraine: The death toll continues to rise
Thousands of angry anti-government protesters clashed with police in a new eruption of violence
following new maneuvering by Russia and the European Union to gain influence over this former Soviet
republic. At least 26 people have already been killed. --Thea Breite
Feb.
18 , 2014
Police clash with anti-government protesters in Kiev on February 18, 2014 and fired rubber bullets at stone-throwing protesters as they demonstrated close to
Ukraine's parliament in Kiev. Police also responded with smoke bombs after protesters hurled paving stones at them as they sought to get closer to the
heavily-fortified parliament building. (Anatolii Boiko/AFP/Getty Images
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Anti-government protesters are wounded after the clash with the police in Kiev on
February 18, 2014. Police said seven officers died from gunshot wounds on Tuesday,
while authorities and demonstrators said five civilians were also killed in the
clashes, bringing the death toll to at least 16. Hundreds of people were injured,
including dozens of police officers, some with serious wounds. (Okeksandr
Ratushniak/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Anti-government protesters clash with the police as they storm in the main Police City Office in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 18, 2014. Antigovernment protesters in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 18 seized the regional administration building and police headquarters as clashes
raged in Kiev, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. Some 500 demonstrators stormed the regional administration after bombarding it with stones before
taking the control of the local police headquarters in the largely pro-EU city. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Anti-government protesters attack an office of
the pro-presidential Party of the Regions in
Kiev, February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Maksym
Kudymets
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Wounded people are seen after clashes with riot police in central Kiev
February 18, 2014. REUTERS//Vlad Sodel
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18 , 2014
Anti-government protesters hold a photo of Ukraine's President
Viktor Yanukovich as they attack an office of the pro-presidential
Party of the Regions in Kiev, February 18,
2014. REUTERS/Maksym Kudymets
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18 , 2014
Riot police officers and a woman take cover behind shields
during clashes between anti-government protesters with police in
Kiev, February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Maks Levin
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27. Interior ministry members take cover behind shields
during clashes with anti-government protesters in Kiev
February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin
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A protester aims with a pistol during clashes with riot police in
Kiev February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin
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February 20, 2014
Ukranian riot police take cover behind their shields
during clashes with anti-government protesters near
Independence Square in Kiev February 18,
2014.REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin
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18 , 2014
Anti-government protesters aim their weapons
during clashes with riot police at Independence
Square in Kiev February 18,
2014. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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18 , 2014
Anti-government protesters help an injured man during
clashes with riot police at Independence Square in Kiev
February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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32. Feb.
18 , 2014
Anti-government protesters throw missiles
during clashes with riot police at the
Independence Square in Kiev January 18,
2014. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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An anti-government protester is engulfed in flames during
clashes with riot police outside Ukraine's parliament in Kiev,
Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP) #
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An anti-government protester prepares to throw a petrol
bomb during clashes with riot police at the Independence
Square in Kiev February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Vasily
Fedosenko
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An anti-government protester throws bottles during clashes with
riot police at the Independence Square in Kiev February 18,
2014. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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18 , 2014
Fireworks explode near anti-government protester
during clashes with riot police at the Independence
Square in Kiev February 18, 2014. REUTERS/Vasily
Fedosenko
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February 20, 2014
Riot police attack anti-government protesters during
clashes in Kiev, February 18, 2014. Ukrainian riot
police advanced on the heart of 12-week-old protests
against President Viktor Yanukovich on Tuesday and
security forces set a deadline to end disturbances after
at least five protesters were reported killed in a day of
clashes. REUTERS/Maks Levin
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38. Wounded people are seen after
clashes with riot police in central Kiev
February 18, 2014. REUTERS//Vlad
Sodel
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An anti-government protester throws a Molotov
cocktail while attacking an office of the propresidential Party of the Regions in Kiev February
18, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Interior Ministry members clash with anti-government
protesters during a rally in Kiev February 18,
2014. REUTERS/Vlad Sodel
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Police look at dead bodies lying on
the ground after clashes between antigovernment protesters and security
officers, in central Kiev February 18,
2014.REUTERS/Konstantin Grishin
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February 20, 2014
Anti-government protesters throw Molotov cocktails as they attack an office of the
pro-presidential Party of the Regions in Kiev, February 18, 2014. Several thousand
anti-government protesters clashed with police near Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday,
torching vehicles and hurling stones in the worst violence to rock the capital Kiev in
more than three weeks. As the clashes extended into early afternoon, protesters
ransacked a nearby office of Viktor Yanukovich's Party of the
Regions. REUTERS/Maksym Kudymets
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18 , 2014
Riot policemen stand guard as they are hit
by fire caused by molotov cocktails hurled by
anti-government protesters during clashes in
Kiev February 18, 2014.REUTERS/Stringer
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Riot policemen detain wounded people
after clashes in central Kiev February
18, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer
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A wounded person lies on the ground after
clashes in central Kiev February 18,
2014. REUTERS/Stringer
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Interior Ministry members and riot police block a street
as anti-government protesters gather in front of them
amidst heavy smoke during clashes in Kiev February
18, 2014.REUTERS/Maksim Liukov
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18 , 2014
Anti-government protesters use fireworks during
clashes with Interior Ministry members and riot
police in central Kiev February 18,
2014. REUTERS/Olga Yakimovich
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18 , 2014
A tree burns during clashes between anti-government protesters and Interior Ministry
members and riot police in central Kiev, February 18, 2014.
REUTERS/Olga Yakimovich
A boy walks by a truck on fire during clashes between anti-government protesters
and Interior Ministry members in Kiev, February 18, 2014.
REUTERS/Andrew Kravchenko/Pool
Riot police stand near wounded people after clashes in central Kiev, February 18,
2014.
REUTERS//Vlad Sodel
Wounded people lie on the ground after clashes in central Kiev February
18, 2014.
REUTERS/Stringer
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Interior Ministry members injured during clashes with anti-government protesters are
escorted by colleagues in Kiev, February 18, 2014.
REUTERS/Stringer
An Interior Ministry member, who was injured during clashes with antigovernment protesters, is transported on a stretcher in Kiev, February 18,
2014.
REUTERS/Andrew Kravchenko/Pool
Wounded people are seen after clashes with riot police in central Kiev, February
18, 2014.
REUTERS//Vlad Sodel
Interior ministry members aim their rifles during clashes with anti-government
protesters in a street near the parliament in Kiev, February 18, 2014.
REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin
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February 20, 2014
An aerial view shows
Independence Square during
clashes between antigovernment protesters and
Interior Ministry members and
riot police in central Kiev
February 19, 2014. Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovich
warned his opponents on
Wednesday that he could
deploy force against them after
what he called their attempt to
"seize power" by means of
"arson and murder". (Olga
Yakimovich/Reuters) #
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19 , 2014
A wounded anti-government protester is evacuated during clashes with riot
police on Kiev's Independence Square on February 19, 2014. Protesters braced
on February 19 for a fresh assault by riot police in central Kiev after a day of
clashes left at least 25 people dead in the worst violence since the start of
Ukraine's three-month political crisis. (Piero Quaranta/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Anti-government protesters protected themselves with shields during clashes with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square, the
epicenter of the country's current unrest, Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. The deadly clashes in Ukraine’s capital have drawn
sharp reactions from Washington, generated talk of possible European Union sanctions and led to a Kremlin statement blaming
Europe and the West. (Sergei Chuzavkov/AP) #
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Anti-government protesters are outside the destroyed regional police
office in Lviv February 19, 2014. Police said protesters had seized
regional administration headquarters in the cities of Ivano-Frankivsk
and Lviv. (Marian Striltsiv /Reuters) #
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Anti-government protesters guard the perimeter of Independence Square on February 19, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. After several weeks of calm, violence has
again flared between police and anti-government protesters, who are calling for the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych over corruption and an
abandoned trade agreement with the European Union. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) #
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February 20, 2014
Anti-government protesters clash with the police on Independence
Square in Kiev early on February 19, 2014. As dawn rose over Kiev's
battered city center, protesters hurled paving stones and Molotov
cocktails at lines of riot police that had pushed into the heart of the
devastated protest camp on Independence Square. (Sergei
Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images) #
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19 , 2014
A hotel clerk looks out the lobby window at a barricade
that was constructed on an adjacent street overnight near
the perimeter of Independence Square on February 19,
2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) #
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Protesters dig up cobblestones to use them against riot
police on Kiev's Independence Square on February 19,
2014. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images) #
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February 20, 2014
A portrait of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich burns near the destroyed building of the security
service in Lviv February 19, 2014. Opponents of Ukraine's president declared political autonomy in
the major western city of Lviv on Wednesday after a night of violence when protesters seized public
buildings and forced police to surrender. (Marian Striltsiv/Reuters) #
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An anti-government protester uses a slingshot to throw stones towards riot police on Kiev's
Independence Square on February 19, 2014. (Piero Quaranta/AFP/Getty Images) #
February 20, 2014
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61. A man walks at the site of clashes
between anti-government
protesters with Interior Ministry and
riot police in Kiev, February 19,
2014. Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovich accused pro-European
opposition leaders on Wednesday of
trying to seize power by force after
at least 26 people died in the worst
violence since the former Soviet
republic gained independence.
(Konstantin Grishin/Reuters) #
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19 , 2014
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Interior Ministry members stand in formation in front of antigovernment protesters during a rally in central Kiev in the early
hours of February 19, 2014. REUTERS/Viktor Gurniak
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19 , 2014
An injured man is helped by anti-government protesters
during clashes with riot police in Independence Square in
Kiev February 19, 2014. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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19 , 2014
An anti-government protester descends from a
burning building during clashes with riot police in
Independence Square in Kiev February 19,
2014. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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65. A general view shows clashes at Independence Square
in Kiev February 19, 2014. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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February 20, 2014
Anti-government protesters clash with riot police
at Independence Square in Kiev February 19,
2014. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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Ukrainian women prepare Molotov cocktails
at Independence Square in Kiev February
19, 2014. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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An aerial view shows Independence Square during clashes between anti-government
protesters and Interior Ministry members and riot police in central Kiev February 19,
2014.
REUTERS/Olga Yakimovich
A man prays as people rest inside Mikhailovsky Zlatoverkhy Cathedral, which
serves as a temporary shelter and a first-aid post for anti-government protesters,
in Kiev, February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/Stringer
Anti-government protesters take cover behind shields as they gather in
Independence Square in central Kiev February 19, 2014. Ukraine's interim
prime minister said on Wednesday that protests which brought violent clashes
with police on Tuesday amounted to an attempted coup.
REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
An anti-government protester smoke while
manning a barricade in Kiev's Independence
Square February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
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Smoke rises above Independence Square during anti-government protests in
central Kiev in the early hours of February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/Petro Zadorozhny
Anti-government protesters throw stones towards Interior Ministry members and
riot police in Independence Square in central Kiev February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Anti-government protesters stand behind burning barricades in Kiev's Independence
Square, February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Anti-government protesters gather and break stones during a rally in central Kiev,
February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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19 , 2014
A woman carries sandwiches as anti-government protesters gather in
Independence Square in central Kiev, February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
An anti-government protester takes cover behind a shield during a rally in
Independence Square in central Kiev, February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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Anti-government protesters use a sling as they fire objects towards Interior Ministry
members and riot police in central Kiev, February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Anti-government protesters carry timber as they gather in Independence Square in
central Kiev, February 19, 2014.
REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili