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The story behind one tweet in Ukraine: 'I'm dying'

It started with a single, shocking tweet. "I'm dying," Olesya Zhukovska, a 21-year-old volunteer medic, wrote on Twitter.She had just gotten shot in the neck by a sniper in the middle of Ukraine's uprising in Independence Square, Kiev.Я вмираю— Olesya Zhukovskaya (@OlesyaZhukovska) February 20, 2014Snipers shot medic woman!! #Euromaidan #Євромайдан #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/oop3LLfaFP— Vitalii Sediuk (@VitaliiSediuk) February 20, 2014Some 6,000 re-tweets later, the internet wanted to know what happened to Zhukovska. A photo went viral, and tweets went out presuming she …

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