Inside uktraine's abandoned presidential palace

All photos:zyalt.livejournal.com

The presidential palace boasted a telling range of furnishings and fittings, including everything from a fleet of luxury cars and bikes to a desk complete with a drawer for batons - and, of course, a personal animal farm.

“This commences a new life for Ukraine," Roman Dakus, a protester guarding a doorway in the compound, told The New York Times. “This is only a start. We need now to make a new structure and a new system, a foundation for our future, with rights for everybody, and we need to investigate who ordered the violence.”

For a full photographic account of the people's invasion of the palace, visit zyalt.livejournal.com