This particular barricade was pretty flimsy by the standards of the barricades erected by protesters over the last week or so in central Kyiv.
About 100 metres away is an encampment.
It is about 30 yards square and maybe 600 metres from Independence Square in Kyiv.
21.00 – people are heeding social media calls to swell numbers in the centre. Atmosphere fairly jolly. Protesters that I have seen in Lutheranska/Institutska area roaming the streets are not carrying sticks.
18.15 – in the last hour police have started to blockade a camp set up by protesters in Lutheranska.
This was set up by opposition activists yesterday opposite a row of riot police guarding an entrance to the Presidential Administration in a bid to disrupt government operations.
Two of the remaining three exits were sealed and an operation to remove a barricade 100 metres away began.
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