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Wounded Medic Whose Fate Gripped Ukraine Tweets 'I'm Alive'

"I'm alive!" The tweet from the account of Olesya Zhukovskaya, a 21-year-old Ukrainian medical volunteer, caused a collective sigh of relief among antigovernment protesters in Ukraine. Some 24 hours earlier, she had been pictured with a wound to her neck, apparently from police sniper fire, amid violence that left some 50 protesters dead on February 20 alone. Her last tweet had said simply, "I'm dying." Here is a chronology of events, including initial...


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