KIEV, Ukraine
Ukraine's Interior Ministry has said that three protesters were shot and killed at close range during recent anti-government protests.
The autopsy results of Sergey Nigoyan, Mikhail Yiznevsky and Roman Senik revealed gunshot traces on the victims’ clothes, the ministry said in a statement on its official website
Protests began in Ukraine in late November after the government refused to sign a trade deal with the European Union amid intense pressure from Russia.
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