In Kyiv, protests are continuing with a demand for the resignation of the president and government. Direct video broadcast in the center of Kyiv on Monday in the evening of Monday is a new mass manifestation. During the day, thousands of people were on the Maidan. Participants in manifestations require the resignation of the President and the Government of Ukraine in connection with the overclocking last week of the so -called Euromaidan - a protest against the decision of the country's authorities to suspend the preparation of an association agreement with the European Union. The manifestation is held on the eve of the meeting of the country's parliament at which the events of the last days will be discussed.
Direct video broadcast from the Maidan: http://radiosvoboda.share.rferl.org/flashhembed.aspx?t=t&id=42&w=500&h=284
Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov today accused the opposition of intention to capture the country's parliament-the Verkhovna Rada and called the situation in Kyiv uncontrollable. He also announced the dismissal of the head of the Kyiv police, Valery Koryak for the euro -Maidan power acceleration on November 30: "After the events from Friday to Saturday, the police chief was dismissed, and tough explanatory work was carried out with all the employees."
The Ukrainian opposition called the conditions under which it will agree to negotiations with the authorities: the dialogue is impossible before the punishment of the guilty for the dispersal of the Euromaidan and the resignation of the government. In addition, according to one of the leaders of the Fatherland party, Nikolai Tomenko, representatives of the opposition must negotiate personally with the president with the participation of international intermediaries.
In Kharkov, the unknown people threw the fireworks in the protesters against the dispersal of the Euromaidan. Several people are injured. The police detained four suspects. About 200 people gathered in the Square of Freedom in front of the regional council building.
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Arbuzov said that "the government was not afraid, is ready to work even in such difficult conditions and will not voluntarily resign." At the same time, information is received about the transfer to the capital
Additional units of the internal troops: according to eyewitnesses, at least five buses with military personnel proceeded through Kremenchug towards Kyiv.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed the opinion that the events taking place in Ukraine are more similar to "not to the revolution, but to pogroms." According to him, television personnel demonstrate "how well -trained and trained groups of militants act"
Over the past days, at least 30 students were delivered to the police department, detained for participating in the militias with the police. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is investigating 11 criminal cases related to the seizures of administrative buildings, mass riots and an encroachment on the life of law enforcement officials. According to the press service of the Opposition Party "Fatherland", "materials are returned to the police as executed in violation of the law, and students are released."
The parliamentary opposition requires on Tuesday, December 3, to consider in the Verkhovna Rada a resolution on distrust of the government of Nikolai Azarov.
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Building and Local Self -Government approved the draft resolution on distrust of the government. This issue should be considered on Tuesday at the morning meeting of the parliament.
The confrontation not only covered Kyiv, but also moved to the regions. Deputies of the Crimean Parliament supported the president and the cabinet of ministers, and also condemned the opposition’s statements. The Kirovograd Regional Council made a similar statement.
The mayor of Donetsk, Alexander Lukyanchenko, said that if there are riots in Kyiv ", then the Donetsk region" will be forced to support the president and the government. " Lukyanchenko noted that in the east and south of Ukraine, "not everyone shares the views of" protesters in Kyiv.
At the same time, in the three regions in the west of Ukraine-Ternopol, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk-it was announced to conduct a universal strike in support of the participants of the Euromaidan. In Zaporozhye, about a hundred protesters blocked the entrance to the building of the city executive committee, demanding the resignation of the mayor of Alexander Sina and the resignation of the government of Ukraine. In the Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regions, opposition parties announced the creation of the "Headquarters of National Resistance".
Kharkov mayor Gennady Kernes said, speaking at an extraordinary session of the regional council that, despite the ban on mass shares imposed by the court, the opposition rallies in the city will not overclock. At the same time, earlier the authorities of Kharkov and the region expressed support to President Yanukovych and the government of Ukraine.
“It is good when there is the Internet in the revolution,” wrote one of the audience on the blogger page Alexander Aronets, who has already shows and tells what is happening in Kyiv for many hours in a row in his video broadcast. The report of the opposition activist has already gained about three million views. In the frame - events on the Maidan and in the government quarter, captured by the protesters of administrative buildings, the headquarters of protest actions: The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine is recalling from Istanbul Ukrainian Genconsul Bogdan Yaremenko. On November 30, a diplomat on his Facebook page compared the acceleration of Euromaidan with the actions of the “invaders and fascists”.
According to the Ukrainian opposition, about 30 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada in protest against the actions of the authorities intend to leave the ranks of the ruling Party of Regions and the same faction in parliament in the near future.
Under the control of the manifestants, the metropolitan city hall remains, and the house of trade unions, where the headquarters of the Ukrainian opposition works. The police said that it would not use force against the protest participants in these tasks. A fragment of video broadcasting from the building of the captured administration:
Thousands of people blocked the entrances to the government building in the morning. Dozens of cars with the flags of Ukraine and the European Union blocked the central streets, the drivers with the signalans supporting the manifestants, and in the courtyard of the government there were 10 buses with the fighters of the Berrokut.
Such a number of manifestants was not in Kyiv even during the days of the "Orange Revolution" 9 years ago, participants in the events say. The reason for anger was the acceleration of the Euromaidan police special forces in the early morning of November 30. Many are convinced that the team to deal with the peaceful participants in the action, among whom there were many young people, President Viktor Yanukovych personally gave. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vitaly Zakharchenko apologized for the excessive use of force, and the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka said that the "every minute" of the events on the Independence Square associated with the actions of special forces would be carefully investigated. At the same time, the pshonka admitted that the participants of the action were legally on the square. On December 1, during the college of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the head of the Kyiv police Valery Koryak filed a petition for resignation. While he is temporarily suspended from office.
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Clashes at the Presidential Administration building
On the Maidan, opposition leaders announced the beginning of the new revolution in order to overthrow the regime, led by Yanukovych, but a specific plan of action was not for a long time. Toward evening, the leader of the right -wing party "Freedom" Oleg Tyagnibok announced the beginning of a nationwide strike. Oppositionists called for installation on the tent square and form commands to block administrative buildings in Monday morning.
In the afternoon, the situation in the center of Kyiv began to heated when there were reports of the assault on the building of the city hall and the presidential administration unknown. They defeated the windows and disappeared. The building included freedom activists - according to them, they are now guarding the mayor's office from looters. At the same time, young people in masked bulldozer tried to push the fighters of the Berkut special forces guarding the presidential administration.
They launched explosive packages, smoke bombs, tear gas, bottles with incendiary mixture. During the clashes, 59 Berkut fighters, as well as several Ukrainian and foreign journalists, were injured: they defeated the journalist from Poland and the Euronews operator, the journalist of Ukrainian Tizhnya Valery Burlakov and the photojournalist of the Ligabberysinform publication Alexander Perevoznik were injured. The Ministry of Internal Affairs later reported that about 300 young people - members of the ultra -right Brotherhood, headed by Dmitry Korchinsky, organized an attack on the administration building.
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An attempt to storm the building of the presidential administration in Kyiv
Later, the situation on Bankova Street was controlled by war veterans in Afghanistan. They lined up with a living chain between the "Golden Eagle" and the hooligans in masks. The headquarters of the opposition of a clash on Bankova Street was called a provocation of power in order to justify the use of force against the manifestants on the Maidan.
One of the centers of events in Kyiv also remains Taras Shevchenko and Mikhailovskaya Square Park.
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50 thousandth protest in Lviv
The head of state watched what was happening from his residence "Mezhigorye" near Kyiv. There, Viktor Yanukovych held a meeting with the participation of ministers and members of the presidential administration, at which, according to the sources close to the president, discussed the possibility of introducing in the country, or separately in Kyiv, a state of emergency, which is impossible without the decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Today, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Rybak said that the issue of emergency "was not considered at any level."
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At a rally in Simferopol, they demanded the resignation of the president
Protests against the policy of Viktor Yanukovych and the government of Ukraine were held in wax and Monday and other cities of Ukraine: Lviv, Dnepropetrovsk, Simferopol and Odessa.