Protests in Ukraine grows,  conflict are intensifying protesters between police a  new revolution going on in Ukraine ?

In response to an opposition call for a nationwide strike over pro-Russian President Yanukovich’s U-turn on Europe, protesters gathered outside the cabinet building in the capital Kiev.

They lined the street with obstacles, including flower pots and rubbish bins, to prevent government workers from getting inside.

“We have to block entire street, the streets behind us also, to be sure that not even one official will get to the Cabinet of Ministers office,” said one protester, as he gave directions to a group.

“We were told to go back home and await further instructions. We simply could not get to work. All the doors are blocked,” said a government employee who tried to enter the building.

Witnesses said a pro-Europe rally in Kiev on Sunday attracted about 350,000 people, the biggest protest in the capital since the “Orange Revolution” of nine years ago.

The protesters have vowed to stage round the clock protests in capital Kiev, demanding the resignation of the government and the president.

They are seeking early elections over Mr Yankovych’s failure to sign a deal with the European Union.

Thousands of supporters of the ex-Soviet state’s closer alliance with Brussels and opposed to closer links with Russia camped out overnight in the capital’s Independence Square.

The energetic crowd had first defied a ban on protests on Sunday by driving lines of helmeted police off the expansive square in scenes reminiscent of the 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution.

Some of the protesters also steered a yellow bulldozer within striking distance of barricades protecting the nearby office of the president.

Security forces outside the president’s office fired dozens of stun grenades and smoke bombs at masked demonstrators who were pelting police with stones and Molotov cocktails.

Kiev police spokeswoman Olga Bilyk said that around 100 officers were injured in Sunday’s clashes.

A mayor’s office official said nearly 50 demonstrators had also been treated by doctors for various injuries.

The nation of 46 million people, which is struggling economically, was thrown into its deepest crisis in nearly a decade when Mr Yanukovych snubbed EU leaders at a summit on Friday.

EU leaders primarily blame the decision on the stinging economic punishments Russia had threatened should Ukraine move towards closer links with the West.

The move now threatens to backfire on Mr Yanukovych as his political foes try to build momentum amid existing discontent with state corruption and disappearing jobs.

About 50,000 protesters also rallied on Sunday in the western city of Lviv, while another 250 EU supporters ignored a court ban in the president’s native region of Donetsk.

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