Deadly Ukraine Clashes: Live Report
1135 GMT: Ukrainian police have told Kiev residents not to go outside, AFP correspondents report.
1125 GMT: A summary of the latest on clashes in Kiev’s Independence Square this morning:
- armed protesters have stormed police barricades in renewed violence that killed at least 26 people, shattering an hours-old truce as EU envoys hold crisis talks with Ukraine’s embattled president
- bodies of anti-government demonstrators lie amid smouldering debris after masked protesters hurling Molotov cocktails and stones forced police from the capital’s iconic Independence Square
- retreating police unleashed a hail of rubber bullets on protesters as plumes of acrid smoke billowed into the air amid the explosions of stun grenades