![]() The seizure of the trade union building was the violent culmination of a day of street battles in this Black Sea resort city. "The aim is to completely clear Odessa ," said Dmitry Rogovsky, another activist from Right Sector whose hand had been injured during the fighting. Many were handed over to police, and loaded on to police vans. Several fire crews were spraying the smouldering building with water and ambulances lined the streets outside.īloody and dazed pro-Russia protesters were eventually escorted from the building. Within two hours of the assault beginning, the resistance from pro-Russia activists inside the building seemed to have been quelled. Riot police arrived on the scene as hand-to-hand fighting was already under way inside, but did not enter the building and stood formed up in ranks outside.Ī protester walks past a burning pro-Russia tent camp near the trade union building in Odessa. "They had guns and they were shooting … Some people jumped from the roof, they died obviously," he said. "At first we broke through the side, and then we came through the main entrance," said one pro-Ukrainian fighter, 20, who said he was a member of the extreme nationalist group Right Sector. ![]() Pro-Ukraine protesters made desperate efforts to reach people with ropes and improvised scaffolding. Some people fell from the burning building as they hung on to windowsills in an attempt to avoid the fire that had taken hold inside. At least five bodies with bullet wounds lay on the ground covered by Ukraine flags as fire engines and ambulances arrived at the scene. Medics at the scene said the pro-Russia fighters were also shooting from the roof. A pro-Russia activist aims a pistol at supporters of the Kiev government during clashes in the streets of Odessa.
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