police on the front lines. One block away, another group of protesters, led by activist Tetyana Chornovol, who was badly beaten in an attack in December, broke the windows and doors of the ruling Party of Regions Kiev headquarters in an attempt to storm the building. Those inside countered by showering protesters with water from a firehouse out the second-floor window. Protesters inside two of the windows heaved Molotov cocktails, igniting small fires that were quickly put out. One person inside the building tossed glass bottles at the mob outside. Within 30 minutes, police arrived on the scene, beating back the crowd with tear gas and blunt force. They eventually managed to cordon off the building and repel protesters from the street. The protesters set up their owncordon about 160 feet away, in case police should try to attack protesters near the parliament from behind. Eventually, a group of police did attack from behind, storming out of a building half a block from the site of the first clashes near parliament. The violence continued into the afternoon, as the number of protesters and police on the streets increased.

Ukraine's Interior Ministry reported that 37 police officers have been injured in the clashes, thus far, according to a statement posted to its website. Some suffered wounds from BBs. In a post on Twitter, opposition lawmaker Lesya Orobets wrote that three protesters had died as a result of the clashes. Their bodies were transported to the House of Officers, two blocks from the site of the main clashes.