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President Yanukovych has had to resign his prime minister and also made the controversial demonstration laws reversed. But the opposition in Ukraine is not enough: The president must go, clarifies ex-boxing champion Klitschko. The fight goes further.

It was a successful day for the opposition in Ukraine: After months of protests in the capital Kiev and in other places of the country the leadership of President Viktor Yanukovych met some of their demands: Premier Nikolai Azarov resigned, and thus his government. Parliament in a special session of the recent strengthening of the right to demonstrate addition picked up.

But the opposition is clear: This was only a small victory. Therefore, with Vitali Klitschko put one of their leaders by: Azarov’s departure was not sufficient to resolve the crisis in his country. The “logical step” was a resignation of Yanukovych said the 42-year-old former world boxing champion.

“We did just one step,” Klitschko told reporters. The protesters on Independence Square, the Maidan, would only go home when the entire leadership of the ex-Soviet republic was replaced, Klitschko presented clearly. “The government would have had to resign Azarov already over two months ago,” he said. The Parliament must adopt an amnesty for imprisoned opponents of the government this Wednesday. In addition, he called for a return to the 2004 constitution to curtail the power of the president. “We have to change not only the government but also the rules of the game.”

But Yanukovych has already made it clear that the opponents of the government in return must vacate occupied buildings and besieged streets. Failure to do so threatens a state of emergency.

Crisis In Ukraine:”Then all the victims are betrayed his”

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Ukraine Protests

Also, the imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko urged the demonstrators in Ukraine to fight on. “This is the first successful step, but not enough,” Tymoshenko said a statement issued on Tuesday, according to announcement. The opponents of the government had taken to the streets to force the resignation of the entire leadership. “If you stop now, without having obtained a complete victory, then all victims are betrayed,” said the 53-year-old.

For weeks, demonstrating against government opponents in Kiev Azarov , but also against Yanukovych. The President is partly because of a crackdown by security forces on protesters in the criticism. Recently there have been several deaths here . The first limited to the capital, Kiev, protests had spread to other cities throughout the country. Original trigger was the short-term rejection of a prepared over the years the Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. Yanukovych instead be closer ties with economic difficulties fighting land to Russia wants .

Azarov is considered confidant of Yanukovych. With his resignation, he wanted to help to find a compromise solution to the crisis , he said. “The conflict (…) threatens the entire Ukrainian society and the individual citizen . ” Azarov was particularly come under criticism of the opposition , as he vehemently defended the approach to Russia in parliament.

Yanukovych asked the former minister to stay business leader in office. The tasks Azarov is temporarily its first deputy , Sergei Arbuzov , assume that Yanukovych is also close .

Russian President Putin: Financial assistance for new government

The CDU MEP Elmar Brok joined the demands of the opposition. The Constitution must be a crucial part of the power to change and Yanukovych revoked, he told the Reuters news agency. “You should see fall the decision to immediately deploy the Constitution of 2004.”

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) expressed the hope that the resignation Azarov could pave the way for a political solution. The EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was expected in the evening to a 48-hour mediation mission in Kiev.
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin was at a meeting with EU representatives in Brussels on de-escalation rate. Russia will pay Ukraine promised financial assistance in the case of forming a government by the opposition. The loans of $ 15 billion were there to help the people, not the government. This also applied when offering to lower gas prices.

On the Maidan square in Kiev said it was quiet on Tuesday as opposed to the past few days until the evening. Thousands of protesters held peacefully a church service. The meter-high barricades filled with snow and ice bags and car tires, however, were still to be seen.

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