Mounting pressure on Kyiv’s Independence squareThe number of armed …
Anticipating a storm by the police, the residents of the tent town on Maidan continue to strengthen the barricades while aggressively behaving thugs threaten Kyiv residents and journalists with weapons.
True Maidan protesters have already joined the volunteer battalions and moved to fight in Donbas. Those remaining are described by Kyivans and press as drinkers and irresponsible persons.
So-called Maidan activists in the tent town are preparing Molotov cocktails and gathering stones.
More their supporters have arrived during the night wearing bullet-proof jackets and machine guns, the TCH correspondent reports.
There are fears that Russian special services will try to use them to provoke unrest in the capital.
Maidan protesters have taken what looks like explosive from sewage hatches, journalists say.