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THE DEATH toll in Monday’s rioting in the Ukrainian capital Kiev rose to three yesterday, with some 140 hospitalised.
Two National Guard officers died of their injuries in hospital yesterday, in addition to one killed on Monday.
The riot began when members of the far-right Svoboda party clashed with troops in riot gear outside the Verkhovna Rada or parliament as MPs voted on a Bill granting greater autonomy to regions in the Russian-speaking east of the country.
As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict
