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A priest holds a cross and shield during clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police in central Kiev, Ukraine, on February 20, 2014. Ukraine's brittle truce shattered on February 20 in fierce clashes between baton-wielding protesters and riot police that claimed dozens of lives just as EU envoys were holding crisis talks with the embattled president. Bodies of anti-government demonstrators lay amid smouldering debris after masked protesters hurling Molotov cocktails and stones forced gun-toting police from Kiev's iconic Independence Square. (Sergey Gapon/AFP/Getty Images) Blood & Tears c o n t i n u e s in Kiev

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A priest holds a cross and shield during clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police in central Kiev, Ukraine, on February 20, 2014. Ukraine's brittle truce shattered on February 20 in fierce clashes between baton-wielding protesters and riot police that claimed dozens of lives just as EU envoys were holding crisis talks with the embattled president. Bodies of anti-government demonstrators lay amid smouldering debris after masked protesters hurling Molotov cocktails and stones forced gun-toting police from Kiev's iconic Independence Square. (Sergey Gapon/AFP/Getty Images) Blood&Tearscontinues in Kiev

Prayers are held Thursday for victims of clashes between anti-government demonstrators and police in Kiev. Hours after a truce was declared, deadly clashes broke out again in Ukraine's capital.

People carry a wounded anti-government protester to a waiting ambulance in Kiev. The international community on Wednesday urged restraint and threatened sanctions against those responsible for the violence.

A woman cries near the bodies of protesters killed during the storming on Kyiv's Independence Square on Feb. 20. Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Bodies of protesters killed during the storming lie on Independence Square on Feb. 20. Kostyantyn Chernichkin

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Anti-government protesters continue to clash with police in Independence square, despite a truce agreed between the Ukrainian president and opposition leaders on February 20, 2014 in Kiev. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

This picture grabbed on AFP TV images shows government soldiers firing onto demonstrators in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Damien Simonart/AFP/Getty Images)

An anti-government protester shouts for help (right) for an injured man during clashes with riot police in the Independence Square in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Protesters advance towards new positions in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

Anti-government protesters carry injured men on stretchers in Independence Square in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. Ukrainian anti-government protesters on Thursday seized back control of Kiev's Independence Square, television pictures showed, after fresh clashes broke out there with riot police. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)

A dead body lies on the ground after violence erupted in Independence Square in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)

Activists pay respects to protesters killed in clashes with police, in Kiev's Independence Square, on February 20, 2014. Fierce clashes between police and protesters, some including gunfire, shattered a brief truce in Ukraine's besieged capital Thursday, killing numerous people. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

A satellite view of central Kiev, imaged by SkySat-1 on February 18, 2014 at 11:10 a.m. local time. Independence Square is at center-left. Black smoke can be seen at center, coming from the epicenter of rioting, near the Ukraine Government House.

Protesters walk near a burning bus on Institutskaya Street, close to Independence Square in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Dmitry Serebryakov/AFP/Getty Images)

Protesters catch fire as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police, on February 20, 2014 in Kiev. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

An anti-government protester stands amid burning tires to throw a Molotov cocktail toward police in Kiev's Independence Square, on February 19, 2014. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

An anti-government protester sits near the bodies of two demonstrators killed by a sniper during clashes with the police in the center of Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

Medics tend to a gravely wounded anti-government protester in the lobby of the Hotel Ukraine, which has been converted to a medical clinic and makeshift morgue, on February 20, 2014. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Protesters stand behind burning barricades during a face-off against police on February 20, 2014 on Independence Square in Kiev. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

An anti-government protester holds a firearm as he mans a barricade on the outskirts of Independence Square in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)

Two Orthodox priests pray during a mass for the dead, after violence erupted in Independence Square, on February 20, 2014. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)

People look at a bullet hole in victim's vest who was killed during a clash between riot police and protesters in Kiev's Independence Square, on February 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Anti-government protesters walk on a puddle of blood left by a wounded demonstrator during clashes with the police in the center of Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

Anti-government protesters prepare to push forward during continued clashes with police in Independence square, on February 20, 2014. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Opposition leader and former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko speaks with protesters. (Sergei Chuzavkov/AP)

Anti-government protesters carry bags filled with stones to build barricades around Independence Square, on February 20, 2014. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)

Anti-government protesters prepare Molotov cocktails during clashes with riot police in Independence Square in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)

Anti-government protesters throw Molotov cocktails in Kiev's Independence Square during clashes with police. Streets and squares in Ukraine's capital are littered with rocks, bricks, spent stun grenades and tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and burning tires, the BBC's David Stern said on Morning Edition.

Protesters use a large slingshot to hurl a Molotov cocktail at police in central Kiev. (Sergei Grits/AP)

Ukrainian Cossacks play drums on Kiev's Independence Square, calling on people to protest on February 20, 2014. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

A general view of Independence square, during the face-off against heavily-armed police in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

A high-ranking police officer, left, and a protester representative hold talks near the Cabinet of Ministers in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

A hall of the October Palace theatre, during clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Reuters/Konstantin Chernichkin)

A protestor stands near barricades during clashes with riot police in central Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

Anti-government protesters shelter behind shields during clashes with police in the center of Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

Protesters escort a "detained" policeman near Independence square in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. Hundreds of armed protesters charged police barricades Thursday on Kiev's central Independence Square, despite a truce called just hours earlier by the country's embattled president. Protesters pushed the police back about 200 metres and were in control of most of the square they had occupied at the start of Ukraine's three-month-old political crisis. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

Anti-government protesters continue to clash with police in Independence square, despite a truce agreed between the Ukrainian president and opposition leaders on February 20, 2014 in Kiev. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

A priest stands in the lobby of the hotel Ukraine near bodies of anti-government protesters killed during clashes with riot police in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)

An anti-government protester reels barbed wire around a barricade during clashes with riot police in Kiev, on February 20, 2014. (Reuters/Konstantin Chernichkin)

An anti-government protester aims a gun in the direction of suspected sniper fire near the Hotel Ukraine, on February 20, 2014. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Anti-government protesters let off fireworks during demonstrations in Independence Square late on February 19, 2014 in Kiev. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

This combination of pictures shows Independence Square in Kiev on April 22, 2009 (left) during a social movement called "Smile Ukraine! Smile overcomes a crisis!", and the same square pictured on February 20, 2014 (right), three months after a political crisis erupted leaving around dozens dead. (Sergei Supinsky, Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

An anti-government protester holds a crucifix in Independence Square in Kiev. Late last year, President Viktor Yanukovych rejected a trade deal with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Moscow, leading to protests against his government.

Flowers are laid on a Ukrainian flag covering body of a killed anti-government protester, in central Kiev, on February 20, 2014. A brief truce in Ukraine's embattled capital failed Thursday, spiraling into fierce clashes between police and anti-government protesters. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

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