The Telgraph :
Kiev was rocked by violence unseen since Ukraine’s February revolution as police and pro-government militiamen clashed with activists camped on Independence Square.
The fighting, which pitched two volunteer battalions of revolutionaries against former comrades who are still occupying the square, exposed growing fractures in postrevolutionary Ukraine.
Violence erupted on Thursday when municipal workers equipped with cranes and backed by police and interior ministry troops arrived on Khreshyatik street, the capital’s main thoroughfare, to try to clear the road for traffic. Black smoke billowed over the city centre as protesters set fire to barricades and hurled cobblestones at the police and troops who arrived to protect the workers.
The protest camp on Independence Square, or the Maidan, as it is commonly known, was the epicentre of the revolution that led to the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych.
