A 25-year-old Ukrainian National Guard officer died on Monday after being shot in the heart in clashes between protesters and police outside parliament, officials said.
“He died on the operating table,” a spokeswoman for the National Guard, Svitlana Pavlovska, told AFP.
Interior ministry advisor Anton Gerashchenko said the victim was a 25-year-old conscript, adding that some of the protesters had used guns in addition to grenades.
About 90 police were wounded in clashes outside the Ukrainian parliament on Monday as lawmakers backed draft reforms giving greater powers to rebels, the interior minister said.
“There are around 90 wounded outside the Rada (parliament) including several people in critical condition,” Interior Minister Arsen Avakov wrote on Facebook, saying protesters detonated “several” explosive devices.
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