Celebration and uncertainty in central Kyiv
From the Yanukovych estate to hymns on the Maidan
Maclean’s foreign correspondent Michael Petrou is in Kyiv where he has witnessed the transformation of a city in less than 48 hours.
In this video, he reports from the estate of president Viktor Yanukovych and from the edge of the barricades on a historic day:
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