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Scores die as Ukraine braces for catastrophe

Agencies
A short-lived truce crumbled yesterday as gunfire erupted at Independence Square, the center of anti-government protests and an increasingly violent crisis that threatens catastrophe for this divided nation.
As protesters fortified barricades and some tried to dodge apparent sniper bullets, Western leaders denounced the violence. Russia's United Nations ambassador accused the opposition of trying to stage a coup.
The head of the protesters' medical service told CNN that 100 people died and 500 were injured in clashes yesterday, just hours after the government declared a truce in fighting that had shocked world leaders with the deaths of 28 people two days before.
Meanwhile, the European Union agreed to impose a travel ban and asset freeze on Ukrainians with "blood on their hands".
An EU diplomat said the number of people on the list however "will depend on developments on the ground".
The United States also was preparing an order to freeze assets of Ukrainians who are believed to be involved in the crackdown, a senior administration official said Thursday. It's likely President Barack
Obama will sign the order later in the day.
The Ukrainian government has not released its own casualty figures, but Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko said 25 police officers had been wounded and an unspecified number of them had died. Some 70 others had been taken hostage, he said.
If the death toll is confirmed, it would make it the deadliest day in Ukraine since protests began.
The violence inflames a crisis that started in November, when President Viktor Yanukovych reversed a decision to sign a trade deal with the European Union and instead turned toward Russia. Ukraine has long been divided between historic loyalties to Europe and its eastern neighbor.
Meanwhile, Russia said it will send a mediator there to negotiate with the opposition. Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said his government doesn't believe the opposition wants a dialogue.
"We think that this attempt to execute a violent coup should stop," he said.
It's unclear what prompted yesterday's clashes. CNN crews at the scene reported that as security forces were moving away from the area, a group of protesters pursued them throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.