Opposition leader Arseny Yatsenyuk asked Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich for a truce till morning.
The leader of the Ukrainian Batkivshchyna (Fatherland)
opposition party, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has asked President Viktor
Yanukovich for a truce until morning.
Yatsenyuk appealed to Yanukovich while speaking from a stage on Maidan amid a standoff between armed protesters and police.
Police start assault against main Kiev protest camp
Ukrainian riot police are moving in against thousands of protesters on Kiev's Independent Square.
Fresh clashes rocked Kiev's main protest camp on Independence Square with riot police confronting anti-government protestors. Police
warned women and children to leave the area as they moved on opposition
positions with water cannon while protestors responded by throwing
Molotov cocktails and setting fire to part of the tent encampment.
Ukraine to restrict traffic into violence-torn Kiev
Ukraine
will restrict incoming traffic to Kiev from midnight to prevent the
escalation of clashes of anti-government protesters with police, the
government press agency said on Tuesday.
"To prevent human casualties and the escalation of conflict we ask the citizens of Ukraine to take into account that transport in the direction of Kiev will be restricted from midnight," it said.
Nine people died during clashes in Kiev on Tuesday, seven civilians and two policemen, police said.
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