Kiev dismantles last remaining Euromaidan protest barriers

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[url]http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28722018[/url]
[quote]The mayor of Kiev has taken the lead in work to dismantle the final barriers and tents on the Ukrainian capital's main street, nine months after pro-EU demonstrators took to the streets.

Vitali Klitschko, an ex-boxing champion who was active in the protests during the winter, turned out with dozens of volunteers and council workers.

He told reporters that Kreschatik Street had to be re-opened to traffic.

Fighting in the east left 13 soldiers dead on Friday, the government says.

The new government is battling an insurrection by pro-Russian separatist rebels in a conflict that is believed to have cost at least 1,500 lives since April.[/quote]

[Trumple]

Easy to forget it all started as a relatively peaceful protest

[Cheshire_cat]

[QUOTE=Trumple;45643935]Easy to forget it all started as a relatively peaceful protest[/QUOTE]
I remember thinking that serious shit was going to happen after a few protestors were killed.

Now, over a thousand people are dead.

[Joey Skylynx]

210 people died at the protest, roughly 1600 people have lost their lives in the Civil War, and Crimea has been lost to the Russians for the time being...
Really strange how these things work out.