Ukrainian police opened criminal proceedings in cases of discovery of the dead with gunshot wounds in the street Hrushevsky in Kyiv. Together with this, the number of employees of law enforcement bodies of victims in the investigation of the events in Kiev, increased to 195 people.

"Criminal case opened under article 115 part 1 of the criminal code of Ukraine (premeditated murder)", - quotes "Interfax" of a word of the adept of the internal Affairs bodies. It is emphasized that this preliminary qualification.

At the same time it is told that the number of employees of internal Affairs bodies of victims in the investigation of the events in Kiev, increased to 195 people. Eighty 4 of them sent to the hospital. Victims diagnosed with closed craniocerebral injury, fractures, burns, stab wounds and a poisoning with unknown drugs, ITAR-TASS reported.

At that time, received information that the law enforcement officers released the street Hrushevsky in Kyiv from supporters of the opposition. The protesters left the street without opposition and passed on Independence square and Khreschatyk. The police asked to action at noon. Several hundred people have built so-called "turtle", the shields, moved close to the barricades, pushing all the protesters outside the barricades. After the fighters of special division "Berkut" down the barricade, they organized and under cover shields began to move towards the European square. First protesters pelted the coming of employees of the interior Ministry stones and Molotov cocktails, but then retreated to Kreschatik. The police started to detain the protesters, using batons and tear gas.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych again called on the opposition to sit down at the negotiating table and to stop the confrontation. "I am against bloodshed against the use of force against incitement of hatred and violence. Ask people to return to their homes. We must resume in Ukraine peace and stability", - has declared Yanukovych.
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