KYIV. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Over 60 people were killed in Kyiv on Thursday, Svyatoslav Khanenko, a Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada deputy of the Svoboda party faction and the chief of the National Resistance Staff's medical service, says citing preliminary information.
"According to preliminary reports, over 60 people had been killed as of 3:20 p.m. today, on February 20, 2014, alone," Khanenko said. "They are using ordinary combat and armor-piercing bullets, and they are firing for effect. The main places of concentration of those killed and injured are on Instytutska Street, near the Freedom Palace (the former Zhovtnevy Palace), the Ukrayina hotel, and near the Kozatsky hotel on Mykhailivska Street. A female volunteer medical worker has also been gravely wounded in her neck," the Svoboda press service cited Khanenko as saying.