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Ukrainians say goodbye to protester killed by sniper fire

2014-02-22 140 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Lviv residents in Western Ukraine came to the city's cathedral on Saturday (February 22) to pay last respects to a local who was killed during violent Kiev clashes earlier this week.<br/> <br />Bohdan Solchanik, 28, was killed by sniper fire on Independence Square in Kiev on Thursday (February 20).<br/> <br />He was a history teacher at the Ukrainian Catholic University.<br/> <br />More than a thousand people came to the memorial mass, including the city's authorities and those who never met Solchanik.<br/> <br />The farewell ceremony was held as Ukraine's parliament voted on Saturday to remove President Viktor Yanukovich, who abandoned his Kiev office to protesters and denounced what he described as a coup after a week of fighting in the streets of the capital that left 82 people killed.

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