Photos: Go on the Front Lines of Ukraine’s Violent Protests

Photojournalist Brendan Hoffman, on covering Thursday’s protests in Kiev and being pinned down by gunfire.

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Until this week, the biggest risk Hoffman faced in Kiev was the occasional volley of rocks and Molotov cocktails. The cops typically returned fire with the same rocks they’d dodged, and vice-versa. Still, he’s always worn body armor just to be safe, and lately he’s been searching for ballistic glasses after seeing several protesters with eye injuries.