Ukraine protest movement: At least 4 killed in clashes with police

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Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- At least four people have been shot dead and hundreds injured amid ongoing clashes with police over new laws limiting the right to protest in Ukraine, the head of protest movement's volunteer medical service, Oleg Musiy, told CNN on Wednesday.

Demonstrators have been rallying in the snowy streets since the weekend in protest against the laws that came into effect Wednesday.

The Interior Ministry said 195 police officers had been injured and 84 hospitalized since the situation turned violent Sunday.

The clashes are an escalation of weeks of largely peaceful public protests prompted by President Viktor Yanukovych's decision in November to spurn a planned trade deal with the European Union and turn toward Russia instead.

The European Union and United States have urged all parties in Ukraine to exercise restraint and find a democratic solution to the political crisis.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/22/world/europe/ukraine-protests/

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-killed-as-ukraine-political-unrest-escalates-in-kiev/

KIEV, Ukraine -- Two protesters whose bodies were found Wednesday near the site of clashes with police were shot with live ammunition, prosecutors said Wednesday, raising fears that their deaths - the first after two months of largely peaceful protests - could further fuel violence on the streets of the Ukrainian capital.

Medics at the site said a third man died after he fell from a high point near a sports arena at the site of clashes, but Natalia Vishnevska, spokeswoman for the city health department, said that man survived the fall and was being treated in the hospital.

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