"[1] Not identified On 30 November 2013 at 04:00, armed with batons, stun grenades, and tear gas, Berkut special police units attacked and dispersed all protesters from Maidan Nezalezhnosti while suppressing mobile phone communications.

[2] The police attacked not only the protesters (most of whom did not or failed to put up resistance) but also other civilians in the vicinity of Maidan Nezalezhnosti, when the Berkut forces chased unarmed people several hundreds of meters and continued to beat them with batons and feet.

[5] At 09:20 Berkut besieged the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery where approximately 50 Euromaidan activists, including the injured, found sanctuary.

[7] Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaliy Zakharchenko later apologized and claimed "riot police abused their power" and promised a thorough investigation.

[21] During 1 December rally, protesters followed through and defied the ban and marched from St. Michael's Square to re-take Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

[29] At around 14:00, a group of protesters commandeered a bulldozer (LongGong CDM 833)[30] from Maidan Nezalezhnosti and attempted to pull down the fence surrounding the Presidential Administration building.

AFP reporters saw security forces outside the Presidential Administration building fire dozens of stun grenades and smoke bombs at masked demonstrators who were pelting police with stones and Molotov cocktails.

[34][35] Radio Stolytsia reported that Berkut riot police stopped a motorcade of protesters from heading towards the presidential mansion in Mezhyhirya, a suburb north of Kyiv.

[35] The Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported that more than 300 members of the radical Bratstvo (Brotherhood) organization were involved in unlawful actions committed outside the Presidential Administration building, who acted under the direction of its leader, Dmytro Korchynsky.

[38] The official websites of Ukraine's presidential administration and interior ministry that controls more than 300,000 law enforcement personnel had been down for most of the day.

Writer Irena Karpa also encouraged the nation to go on general strike – to skip work, boycott Russian products and continue the protests.

[35] Klitschko denounced the attempt to storm the president's office as an effort to provoke the government into declaring a state of emergency.

[42] Opposition leader Yuriy Lutsenko also called for a revolution to take place, saying "Our plan is clear: this is not a rally, not an action.

[43] Five riot police sustained bodily injuries and three have been chemically poisoned from an unknown gas, Ukrainska Pravda reports.

One journalist was hit with an explosive device during clashes with Berkut on Bankova Street,[35] and New York Times photographer Joseph Sywenkyj was injured when a piece of a sound grenade struck him in the face.