Lviv protesters paint military windshields with red paint to prevent movement
1:59 a.m., Jan. 20 -- Protesterr in Lviv say they blocked movement from a military unit seeking to go to Kyiv and also painted windshields red to prevent the driving of the vehicles. -- Daryna Shevchenko
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Report: Police from Donetsk being brought to Kyiv
1:57 a.m., Jan. 20 Journalist Denis Kazansky says he has video of police convoys from Donetsk going to Kyiv to help reinforce their colleagues in the capital. --Daryna Shevchenko
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Lviv protesters say police stop hundreds enroute to Kyiv
1 a.m. Jan. 20 EuroMaidan Lviv reports that several buses bringing people to Lviv were stopped by road police and their drivers had their licenses confiscated. A separate report is that Lviv demonstrators stopped military units from moving to Kyiv, drawing approving "Lviv is with the people!" shouts from protesters. -- Daryna Shevchenko
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'Titushki' taking positions on Hrushevskoho Street?
12:45 a.m. Hromodske TV journalist Bohdan Kutepkov says that "titushky," or paid thugs linked to the government, are amassing on Hrushevskoho Street near the EuroMaidan demonstrators. If true, this could mean more conflict. -- Daryna Shevchenko
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Police continue to use water cannons as protesters defend themselves
1:47 a.m., Jan. 20 -- The fires are out on the seized and burned police vehicles, but police are using water cannons to keep protesters away. Some of the protesters, using shields they stole from police, are holding the shields over their head for protection while trying to advance on police. Ukrainian police used tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon in a bid to disperse the hundreds of people who sought to storm police cordons near the Verkhovna Rada parliament in the capital. -- Christopher J. Miller.
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Several thousand protesters remain on Hrushevskoho Street
12:40 a.m., Jan. 20 -- Several thousand demonstrators remain on Hrushevskoho Street as a kiosk nearby on Dynamo Stadium burns. Volunteers are offering them sandwiches. Piles of pavement lie on the street. Doctors on the scene confirm that police used rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators.
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Demonstrators and police reinforce; doctors say more than 100 injured
12:25 a.m. Jan. 20 - As fires subsided and the remaining police buses burned up, law enforcement removed non-essential vehicles and moved in additional riot police, who replaced less experienced officers from the Interior Ministry. Up to 3,000 police were on hand, forming columns and reinforcing their ranks. The Interior Ministry said that six police vehicles -- four buses and two trucks -- were burned. Police sirens were heard and an officer on a loudspeaker warned demonstrators that they were breaking the law and could face up to 15 years in prison.
Demonstrators, meanwhile, were triumphant and defiant. They were also still hurling Molotov cocktails at police. The protesters claim that they will have 15,000 people overnight from all over Ukraine to defend their positions on Independence Square from any police assault. "We have achieved our goal: freedom or death," one protester said.
Oleksandr Sych, a member of parliament with the opposition Svoboda Party, told Hromodske TV that they blocked the movement of military outfits from bases in Ivano-Frankivsk and Kalush to prevent soldiers from being moved to Kyiv.
Doctors reported carrying out more than 100 injured people today. -- Jakub Parusinski, Daryna Shevchenko and Christopher J. Miller.
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Police retreating on Hrushevskoho Street
11:54 p.m. The rock-throwing, homemade-explosives tossing, Molotov cocktail-hurling demonstrators have at least temporarily gained the upper hand against police officers, forcing them to retreat up the hill from their previous positions on Hryshevskoho Street near Dynamo Stadium, which is on the base of the hill leading up to Ukraine's parliament. The retreat is grudging and inch-by-inch, as protesters shout "Glory to Ukraine," bang metal rods against fire barrels and other makeshift drums. Explosions are taking place all over as if it's a war zone. Fireworks fly over the remains of burning and burned-out police buses and trucks, set afire by protesters. Prosters are taking out pavement from the street for use as weapons and firing smoke bombs at police. They are using barrels as drums and building new barricades, as if preparing for a police raid tonight on Independence Square. Several hundred are taking part in the agitation. One protester plays the trumpet as others sing. -- Katya Gorchinskaya and Daryna
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Klitschko says civil war cannot be ruled out if violence continues
11:30 p.m. Speaking on Hromadske TV, opposition leader Vitali Klitscho says that if the government continues to use violence as a tool for ending Ukraine's political crisis, civil war cannot be ruled out. He said he was returninng to Hrushevskoho Street, which is still in flames with police buses burning and constant explosions, in an attempt to bring peace. He said he is ready to take responsibility for solving the nation's crisis.
Today's violence is alarming Western leaders with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt tweeting that "open democratcy and reconciliation are the only way forward for Ukraine. Repression and violence will seink the country. Earlier, Lavtian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgard Rinkevics tweeted: "On may way to Brussels. Although Ukrine is not on the agend of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council, we need to discuss disturbing develoments in Kyiv." -- Christopher J. Miller, Daryna Shevchenko and Anastasia Forina
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