Video - Kiev mass riots timeline and Live updates.(RussiaToday).
11:54 GMT: Armored personnel carriers (APC) are now seen roaming central Kiev.
11:21 GMT: It has now been ascertained that one of the victims of the violence is an Armenian. The confirmation comes from the country's foreign ministry, Interfax says.
"The Armenian embassy in Ukraine has confirmed reports that the person who had died in Kiev, one Sergey Nigoyan, is an Armenian national"
11:16 GMT: RT's Alexey Yaroshevsky is reporting that it is getting harder to breathe because of all the smoke that is rising as the rioting crowd sets fire to tires underneath the 'Dinamo' soccer stadium
His latest tweets can be found here.
"We saw less than an hour ago the second attempt by the police to push the rioters off... set up a barricade, then the police came back again," Alexey explains, adding that "it's a stalemate... the situation has been very tense so far..." Given that it is Unity Day today and the opposition has "called on hundreds of thousands to take to the streets, it's very hard to say where the march may end up. So we are in a hotbed of tension that looks like a war zone here in central Kiev."
11:12 GMT: The president’s meeting with the opposition has been agreed for 11:45 GMT (15:45 Moscow time), according to Arseniy Yacenyuk’s Twitter account. “The three of us are due to meet Yanukovich. I confirm can confirm it.”
11:08 GMT: Although initial police action has broken up the protesters' ranks for the time being, they refuse to leave the square. Flash grenades are being heard and smoke now rises up from multiple occasions. This is the scene now.
11:00 GMT: The scene grows tenser as individual gunshots are ringing out. The rioting crowd appears to be more decentralized after the latest police onslaught.
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