that has to be on the table, yes. >> sweden's foreign minister carl bildt.rotest started novembe november 21st when government abandoned an agreement to strengthen ties with europe and opting t to side with russia instead. about a month later three protesters died in a battle with police amid harsh anti-protest laws, and on january 28th the prime minister resigned parliament repealed those laws. and released hundreds of detainees. two days later this deadly violence erupted. ukrainians in the united states are keeping a close eye on the events unfolding in kiev. john terrett wit with us from new york. >> lots of ukrainians live just outside of new york, but they also live in manhattan and the east village. we met with them today. we found young and old alike watching the event. take a look. >> having her usual from the menu, water, honey, and lemon juice. she swears it keeps her strong even when news from ukraine, which she left in 1953, gets worse. >> i think it's a terrible thing without any heart, so many people got killed, and they still stand there and

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have already seen the information campaign launched by the western top notch politicians like carl bildt they present a stolen who has been rich twitting some lying tweets about russian special forces being. used in my done which is false and which has been confronted by the minister of foreign affairs of russia also there is some academic institutions in washington d.c. like brookings institute. jacob talbot already twitted that put news going after georgia maybe not to crimea so this is total nonsense and actually we're now seeing that interference from the west is only fueling the crisis in ukraine and all we're living through more of casualties and they have already announced the possibilities of sanctions but i believe that they should consider imposing those sanctions on themselves because they are now to blame for the ask the lation of the crisis and for more casualties in the straits of ukraine how would rise of this kind have been dealt with may be have happened elsewhere in europe. well we have already seen germany france and other countries are very strict on on those proteste

as you heard carl bildt say, they're on the brink of civil war and all out violence.s of a truce is very well news as lines of riot police still stand on the edge of independent square. there are brand new barricades. heavily fortified bear kids. and they were digging up paving stones getting their hol molotov cocktails ready again, but the violence right now seals to be averted. >> jennifer, thank you. >>> an american who joined the protesters in ukraine said he was brutally beaten by police. george traveled from maryland to take part of the protest. he said he was with a group of activists trying to stop police were getting into the main protest camp in kiev. >> i just got clubbed all over. on the head, broke my arm in two places. finally i got--i fell on the ground, and the rule is you can't hit a guy on the ground. you're supposed to. it's against the rule of something or other, maybe even the united nations they just kept hitting me and hitting me. >> doctors at the hospital say they have seen many different kinds of wounds in the last 24 hours. >>> ukrainians he