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Death toll in Kiev clashes rises to 65

20 February 2014 17:30 (UTC +04:00)

“Hundreds of people have been taken to hospital,” she said. “Today, I inspected Kiev-based hospitals. They are overcrowded. There are dozens of people with gunshot wounds there. In fact, Kiev’s streets are an arena of combat operations.”

She urged to spare no effort to settle the situation in a peaceful way, through talks. “I am calling to immediately stop bloodshed in Kive’s streets and in other Ukrainian cities to save human lives,” she stressed. “It is never too late to stop shooting, to save human lives.”

Today’s death count includes seven people, with two police officers among them, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported on Thursday.

Anti-government protests have been underway in Ukraine since November 2013. A new wave of riots started in Kiev in the morning of February 18 after opposition supporters tried to march to the building of Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s unicameral parliament, in support of a constitutional reform cutting presidential powers.