UKRAINE-POLITICS-UNREST

A general view of Independence square is seen during the face off against heavily-armed police February 20, 2014 in Kiev. Armed protesters stormed police barricades in Kiev on Thursday in renewed violence that killed at least 26 people and shattered an hours-old truce as EU envoys held crisis talks with Ukraine’s embattled president. Bodies of anti-government demonstrators lay amid smouldering debris after masked protesters hurling Molotov cocktails and stones forced police from Kiev’s iconic Independence Square — the epicentre of the ex-Soviet country’s three-month-old crisis. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS – ELSENT, FPG, TCN – OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **