About 200 supporters of Ukraine's
European integration, who had been pushed away from the Kyiv's central
square Maidan Nezalezhnosti, barricaded themselves in the territory of
St. Michael's Cathedral. Dozens members of the parliamentary opposition
are in a Mikhailovskaya square next to the St. Michael's Cathedral.
Earlier today police have put an end
to protests in Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square,
following "a number of incidents and clashes" between pro-EU integration
supporters and police units. Following incidents that took place late
on Friday, there were also some clashes with workers from city utility
services, it said.
On Friaday, several hundreds of Yanukovych' supporters held a demostration in central Kyiv.
Ukraine
faced a wave of protests after President Viktor Yanukovych unexpectedly
refused to sign a association agreement with the EU earlier this month,
opting instead for an alliance with Russia.
A
spate of rallies by pro-EU protesters took place across the Eastern
European nation over the past week, including in Kiev, where up to
100,000 rallied last Sunday.
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Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko showed a video of provocateurs' actions to EU Ambassadors
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Kiev city administration asks the court to ban mass protest planned for Sunday
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Opposition blocked traffic on several streets of Kiev.
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"Parliament won't start working till the Verkhovna Rada will vote for resignation of the government,' the head of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction Arseny Yatsenyuk says.
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Viktor Yanukovych addressed Ukrainians on his web site and called for an immediate and objective investigation so that those guilty could be punished, though he did not specifically blame the police for the incidents.
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, once Poland's Prime Minister and now the head of the opposition party "Law and Order", has promised to come to Kiev to support the protesters.
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is subdued to the Russian Patriarchate, is calling on Ukrainians to refrain from violence.
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Ukrainian MP David Zhvaniya has left the fraction of the Party of Regions, motivating this step with the failure to sign the treaty about the association with the EU.
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Yanukovych demands results of "objective" investigation to punish those guilty of violence
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"I condemn the actions that led to violent confrontation and suffering," Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych
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The EU has decisively condemned the excessive use of force against protesters in Kiev and called on the Ukraine authorities to find those responsible for dispersing demonstrators, a joint statement by EU foreign chief Catherine Ashton and European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Štefan Füle, says.
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The Ukrainian office of Amnesty International condemned the dispersal of the EuroMaidan in Kyiv and demanded an immediate and effective investigation into this incident.
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The United States condemned a violent crackdown on a peaceful anti-government demonstration in Kiev Saturday and called on Ukraine's leaders to respect their people's right to free expression and assembly.
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Angry citizens attacked a police bus not far from the Kiev office of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. Protesters blocked the road and tried to smash windows.
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Ukrainian ombudsman finds use of force at Kyiv's EuroMaidan excessive
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Vitaly Klitschko called on all the Kiev students (more than half a million people) to take to the streets on Sunday (Photo: EPA)
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Ukrainian authorities should respect people’s right to participation in peaceful actions of protest, Britain’s Minister of State for Europe David Lidington said in a statement Saturday.
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Speaking in front of people, opposition leaders called on their compatriots to attend the city’s meeting on December 1.
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A tent camp, similar to the one located in Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square yesterday, has been set up in Mikhailovskaya Square.
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The head of the Kiev office of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry says there is no point in bringing police to St. Michael Monastery where opposition activists are getting together at the moment.
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The government of Ukraine is not interested in provoking an escalation of tensions and remains committed to stability in the country, the prime minister’s spokesperson Vitaly Lukyanenko said
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Criminal case opened against police that dispersed EuroMaidan - head of Kyiv police.
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According to the latest data, from 5,000 to 7,000 people gathered in the square nearby St. Michael’s Monastery. The head of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction, Arseny Yatsenyuk, head of the UDAR political party, Vitaly Klitschko, and leader of the Svoboda union, Oleg Tyagnybok, arrived in Mikhailovskaya Square.
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The Mayor of Lviv, Andrei Sadovyi, said that in case of an attempt to forcefully scatter a protest action of European integration proponents, which is taking place in one of the city’s square, the whole city will come to its defense.
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Operative group has been created to investigate events that occurred at euromaidan at night, Ukrainian Prime Minister's press officer added.
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Ukranian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov is extremely concerned, outraged by situation with dispersal of peaceful protest at EuroMaidan said his press officer.
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Ukrainian and EU flags can be seen in the crowd. Participants are carrying posters with slogans reading “Get up, Ukraine!”, “We, Ukrainians, invincible”, “Kiev, come out!”
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According to organizers’ information, from 4,000 to 10,000 people have come to a meeting in Mikhailovskaya Square, in Kiev, on Saturday night. Protesters gathered around the monument to Princess Olga, at the foot of which people deliver speeches.
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Moscow has expressed hope that the Ukrainian people will sort out the problem on their own, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Nebenzya said.
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European Union chair Lithuania on Saturday condemned Kiev for forcefully dispersing opposition demonstrators calling for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's resignation after he failed to salvage a landmark EU deal.
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Ukranian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov urged Ukrainians not to succumb to provocations in the current situation. Azarov wrote about it in Facebook.
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Jailed former premier Yulia Tymochenko has urged anti-government activists in the Ukraine to press on with protests until their demands for President Viktor Yanukovych's resignation are met.
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Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka says rallies calling for Ukraine's European integration will not be dispersed if their participants observe the current legislation.
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The opposition expects reaction from Ukraine's Western partners "not in word but in deed," Yatsenyuk said. "It is time to act. All dreams are gone," he said.
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The opposition's political demands also "envision the Ukrainian Cabinet of ministers' resignation, for which a resolution on a vote of no confidence in the government has been filed, and Viktor Yanukovych's replacement through simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections," he said.
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The opposition will also demand the disclosure of the duty rosters of "all special task forces who beat our children on Kyiv streets and at the Maidan [Independence Square]," he said.
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The opposition demands the interior minister's resignation, "and not only resignation but also a criminal investigation into his deeds and the trial of such a minister," Yatsenyuk said.
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"Responsibility for this crime rests with two people in this country: Viktor Yanukovych, as the one who ordered this crime, and Interior Minister Zakharchenko, as the one who executed it," he said.
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"At [President] Viktor Yanukovych's order, a crime was committed this night against ordinary peaceful people, and what is most horrible, against children, whom the Berkut special task force beat brutally in line with Interior Minister [Vitaly] Zakharchenko's instructions," he said.
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"The three opposition parties have made a joint decision on forming a national resistance headquarters, and we have started preparations for an all-Ukrainian national strike," Yatsenyuk said at a news conference on Saturday.
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The Ukrainian opposition will set up a national resistance headquarters and start preparations for a nationwide strike in the near future, says Arseny Yatsenyuk, the leader of the opposition Batkivshchyna party faction at the parliament. Read more: Ukrainian opposition starts preparations for nationwide strike - opposition leader
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“We are unable to quote a number, as it varies depending on the number of those addressing for medical assistance,” the police said.
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The capital city's police confirmed detention of 30 people, refusing to quote the number of injured during the morning operation in the square against participants in the rally.
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Press service of St. Michael’s Monastery told reporters the monks were not against people being in the territory next to the cathedral, but they “ask not to organise rallies there.” “We are not closing doors for anyone, but anyway this is a monastery territory. Berkut forces are not in the monastery. Their buses are in Trekhsvyatitelskaya Street /next to the monastery/,” the press service said, adding the monastery’s abbot was not in Kiev at the moment.
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