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(90,061 posts)At least 42 people were killed in street battles between supporters and opponents of Russia in southern Ukraine that ended with dozens of pro-Russian protesters incinerated in a burning building, bringing the country closer to war.
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It also spread the violence from the eastern separatist heartland to an area far from the Russian frontier, raising the prospect of unrest sweeping more broadly across a country of around 45 million people the size of France.
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About 2,000 pro-Russian protesters gathered outside the burnt-out building, chanting: Odessa is a Russian city.
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Oleg Konstantinov, a journalist covering the events for a local Internet site, said bullets had flown in the melee before the blaze: I was hit in the arm, then I started crawling, and then got hit in the back and leg.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/dozens-killed-in-ukraine-street-battles-and-building-fire-1.1783207