Update | Anti-government protests in Kiev turn deadly
Two reported dead from gunshot wounds in Kiev as thousands of pro-European Union protesters battle with police for a third night
Ukraine's anti-government protests claimed their first victims as police retook parts of the capital from demonstrators readying another mass rally.
Pitched battles raged in the centre of Kiev as protesters hurled stones at police, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.
After a third night of street violence, two dead bodies were found at a medical point set up by protesters, Interior Ministry spokesman Serhiy Burlakov said.
Prosecutors said the two men were shot with live ammunition while medics at the site said a third man also died after he fell from a high altitude.
European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso warned the authorities that the EU executive would assess "possible actions" while French President Francois Hollande expressed serious concern over the increasing violence.
Once again I ask people not to succumb to calls from political radicals
President Viktor Yanukovych is struggling to stem rallies against his November snub of a European Union co-operation deal, with police crackdowns fanning people's anger. Anti-protest legislation passed last week backfired by turning a demonstration on Sunday violent.
