Three protesters have died in clashes with police in the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday, according to medics on the site, a grim escalation of the country’s two-month-long political crisis.
One man died in the hospital after falling from a high altitude and two others were killed by gunshot wounds, said Oleh Musiy, coordinator of the protesters’ medical corps. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov charged that Opposition leaders should be held responsible for the deaths and said that police at the site of the clashes did not have live ammunition. But Musiy told The Associated Press the wounds resembled those caused by live ammunition.