There are 43 Ukrainian athletes competing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. They ski, they snowboard, they luge and they figure skate, among other sports.
Sochi is a two-hour plane ride from Kiev, Ukraine’s capital. There, countrymen of Ukraine’s 43 Olympians are dying in the streets
Violence has engulfed Kiev this week in an explosive escalation of months of tension between protesters who favor closer ties with Europe and an increasingly embattled government allied with Russian President Vladimir Putin
The city’s main square burns as the world watches via Internet live stream. Demonstrators have been killed, battered, bloodied. Witnesses describe police officers trapped, burning to death in an armored vehicle. A journalist was shot and killed, one of 25 new deaths in Kiev that The New York Times reported Wednesday morning. Read more…
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