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Lasted nearly five hours, the talks between government and opposition on Thursday night the result was meager. Some prisoners are to be released. Vitali Klitschko asked his followers to extend the “ceasefire”. The amount reacted with an angry catcalls.

A relaxation of the political crisis in Ukraine is not in sight. After hours of negotiations with President Viktor Yanukovych, the three leaders of the opposition arrived late Thursday night on the central Maidan Square. Vitali Klitschko, Oleg Tiagnibok by the nationalists and the former Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk had to admit that they have achieved only minimal commitments at the meeting. They were booed by thousands in the square. After the performance, there is further risk that the protests earlier lead as in the days in violent street battles with the police.

In the morning, the former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko had been able to achieve a short-term calming of the situation with a dramatic appeal to the violent parts of the opposition movement . Specifically, he asked hundreds Masked , not to provoke the police at a barricade in the center of Kiev for a few hours . At the point several demonstrators were on the night of Wednesday in civil war-like scenes have been killed and hundreds injured , a true battlefield witnessed on Thursday night of the fight.

By evening, the mass of the increasingly mixed group of hooligans but persevered at the roadblock , they were against special police stationed . Shortly before midnight, then appeared on Klitschko at the barricade of burnt buses and cars. Pressed by the crowd he had to explain that he only the release of some hundred prisoners had been able to reach at the interview with the President . But even this he could not name a date.

Ukraine Kiev Uprising:”We will not let us put off”

Orthodox priests stand in front of police troops at the site of clashes with anti-government protesters in Kiev
Orthodox priests stand in front of police troops at the site of clashes with anti-government protesters in Kiev

Shortly thereafter, the opposition politicians stepped visibly frustrated on the big stage of the nearby Maidan Square on there waiting for months thousands of demonstrators despite freezing cold out. “I know that all of you will be very disappointed when I finished my speech,” cried Klitschko. The two-meter man had no other choice than to provide his followers with staying slogans. While he mentioned the possibility of a national strike. It remained unclear, however, when he and the other opposition groups want to call specifically for such a protest.

The crowd in the square respond disappointed in the end many of them even shouted “Shame, shame”. Especially the young men who had armed themselves in recent days with motorcycle helmets, steel rods and slingshots, moved to the speech immediately back to the barricades. “We will not let us put off,” said one angry. In the heated situation, it is questionable whether the policy can still keep under control the hatred of the mob.

The day before the opposition leader had the president issued an ultimatum for a concession and otherwise announced mass demonstrations of historic proportions. The 42-year-old Klitschko had stressed, Yanukovych had to Thursday evening the demands of the demonstrators to meet that demand, among other early elections.

President Yanukovych remains true to his line to make no or only minimal concessions. He applied for a special session of parliament in Kiev, which will take place next week. Although the government could there also about the opposition demand for a withdrawal are advised, however, has Yanukovych in Parliament over a whopping majority, a vote of no confidence is thus virtually impossible. He had used back in December even as a diversionary tactic to gain time A similar vote.

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