WAR: BLOODSHED IN KIEV (Live Updates)
(The
Independent) -- Blood and black ash smeared the once-pristine floors of
Kiev’s Hotel Ukraine. Dining tables, hastily shoved together, became
makeshift hospital beds for the injured; the cold ground was a crude
morgue. A priest knelt next to one man, offering what small comfort he
could.
On the bloodiest day in modern Ukrainian history, the 12 lifeless, unnamed men who lay on the floor of the hotel lobby on Thursday morning, their bodies loosely covered with sheets, were just a few of the dozens killed in a conflict that has transformed the centre of Ukraine’s capital into a brutal battleground.
Standing yards away from the bodies, Olga Bogomolets, one of Ukraine’s leading doctors, told The Independent that they had been hit by police sniper bullets in the head, heart, lungs and neck.
Police, she said, had prevented doctors from treating the injured immediately. “We may have been able to save the lives of some of them.” Read more...
On the bloodiest day in modern Ukrainian history, the 12 lifeless, unnamed men who lay on the floor of the hotel lobby on Thursday morning, their bodies loosely covered with sheets, were just a few of the dozens killed in a conflict that has transformed the centre of Ukraine’s capital into a brutal battleground.
Standing yards away from the bodies, Olga Bogomolets, one of Ukraine’s leading doctors, told The Independent that they had been hit by police sniper bullets in the head, heart, lungs and neck.
Police, she said, had prevented doctors from treating the injured immediately. “We may have been able to save the lives of some of them.” Read more...
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