Pavlo Moskalenko
18.02.2004 18:30 Facebook status update
Translated by Anna Danilova
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I was at Insytutska Street, helped to build the barricade at Shovkovych Street, when Berkut and internal troops broke through down from the park. The crowd panicked, everybody ran – women, men, children. All kind of things (bullets, grenades, gas, stones) were flying from the side of internal troops and into the running, falling down, crying, moaning crowd. Before my eyes people went down like ninepins after being hit by stones in their unguarded heads. Just beside me, a grenade explode next to a young guy’s face turning it into a bloody mess. I dragged some girl by hand, she stumbled at every step and we were drastically backwards. In the end we found ourselves among the Berkut’s shields The first barricade was pretty close. There was no passage, people clambered to the top as well as they could, and again they received stones in their backs from the internal troops. I thought about how just some hours ago I had saved one such as him from a lynching.

Thank God, I managed to throw the girl over the barricade. And I climbed under the batons’ strokes. Finally, among people. And Maidan is completely close now…

Sorry for such a muddle. I’m writing from my mobile phone. It’s like my hands are not mine anymore. I’m writing now, because I will never write it again otherwise. The guy with the torn up face is before my eyes. God, let him stay alive. And all the wounded, who remained under those boots – I beg of you!

Soldiers of internal troops, you’re the same sons of bitches as Berkut…
God, save Ukraine!

In these photos is a PTI teacher, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, senior researcher Mikhail Kuznetsov. And apparently his son.

MP Oleksandra Kuzhel
18.02.2014 20:30 Facebook status update
Translated by Anna Danilova
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These are not people, but bloody beasts. If you only knew how many wounded, crippled people there are now! How much pain and grief!

And don’t you dare say that they are loyal to the oath. They don’t know such a word. They don’t know anything at all, apart from animal instincts, apart from a desire to cripple and kill. Berkut is doing this. Today police were guarding the wounded in the House of Officers and didn’t let those animals enter the building. People heard and wrote to me that Berkut members exchanged remarks with each other that they arrived in Kyiv for hunting.

There’s only one person responsible for everything that happened today and for everything that is still to happen – it’s Yanukovych. Don’t believe anybody who’s trying to convince you to the contrary.

This was a carefully planned provocation, devilish, vile, disgusting in its cruelty. It had only one purpose – to unleash a bloodbath.

People came to peacefully support the demand for the return of the 2004 Constitution [the year before Yanukovych made changes to it to benefit himself]. So as to limit the powers of the bloody Moloch, demanding human lives and devouring human destinies daily. They were shot at from rooftops by snipers, had grenades thrown at them, and were beaten to death by clubs with iron fittings.

Where are all of those who have been tirelessly called for forceful action all these days? Where are the politicians calling to take firearms and come with him to Maidan?! I did not see any of them near us when, together with women MPs, we pulled crippled boys out of police vans! I haven’t seen any of those who accused politicians of indecision and unwillingness to attack, next to Olga Bogomolets who is struggling over hundreds of wounded like an injured bird!

I’m going from the 17th hospital to a burn center. According to doctors, there are around 120 wounded in the 17th, many of them are seriously injured. 2 are dead.

I cannot stand, I’m stifling tears, it seems to me that a normal person cannot bear everything that fell to the lot of Ukrainians today.

I cannot also summon men to come to Maidan. I can only ask them to come, realizing however, that all who are there are in mortal danger.

I don’t know what will happen tonight. I know that today the country has become different. And will never be the same.