Clashes on Hrushevsky Street

Kyiv, Hrushevskoho Street, Euromaidan, January 20, 2014.

The video shows continuing clashes between Euromaidan participants and police and internal troops, barricades made of burnt vehicles, people in balaclavas, Berkut officers, dismantled pavement, protesters knocking on metal with sticks, the main entrance to the Dynamo Stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovsky damaged.

Commentary: Head of the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Serhiy Burlakov.

Background: On January 19, 2014, according to the BBC, several tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Kyiv to express their outrage at the “Laws on Dictatorship”. The peaceful rally turned into a confrontation with the police and internal troops.