to do this government side need to start real shooting. The current government doesn't have enough popular support to do it - the common plague of bad corrupt governments - and may loose what it has or gain much more of it as result of the shooting with predictability of a dice throw.
Ukrainian paper, not Russian news program. As far as I understand. So no, not by protesters.
See the link from anonymoushn below
there's a video of his beating online, he was severely beaten up by government-controlled thugs with baseball bats and then shot by police
Any reason prevented you from posting the link to the video?