The real number of people who died during the clashes on the

Independence Square (also known as Maidan) and related events is around

780 people, according to the organization of Maidan volunteer doctors.

“As far as we know, 780 people have died. This number includes about

300 people who disappeared from hospitals (emergency hospitals, other

medical institutions), they were taken away and their bodies were burned

in crematoria. These people are missing, they are being searched for,

but no one can find them… There were around 200 wounded in the fourth

to eighth floors of the Trade Unions House, they could not move

independently, some of them could not see, some had brain injuries –

they were burned alive. Corpses were taken from there [Trade Unions

House] in black VW vans without number plates to an unknown

destination,” a medical volunteer, Anastasiya Polischuk, said at a

briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.