A Ukrainian reporter was one of the people killed in Kiev. Vyacheslav Veremyi, who worked for the pro-government newspaper Vremya (Time), died in hospital on Wednesday of a gunshot wound to the chest. His colleagues do not believe the attack was accidental.
The reporter and a colleague, IT specialist Aleksey Lymarenko, were ambushed by a gang of men when their taxi stopped at traffic lights about 800 metres from Independence Square.
They pulled Veremyi and Lymarenko from the car along with the driver and beat them up. But Lymarenko struggled free and managed to return to the newspaper office.
Veremyi was described by the paper as one of its "leading journalists". He had been reporting on the protests over the past three months.
Source: Russia Today
