After clashes in Kyiv, Yanukovych agreed to negotiations with the opposition. The “Right Sector” took responsibility for the mass riots

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, after the riots on Sunday on Sunday on Grushevsky Street, at the government quarter, where there were more than six hours clashes between police officers and demonstrators, announced his readiness to start negotiations with the opposition . He promised on Monday to create a commission from representatives of the presidential administration, the Cabinet of Ministers and representatives of the opposition, which will be engaged in a decision of the crisis in the country.

The clashes began during the day ( chronicle ). Part of the activists, who went to police cordons enclosing the government quarter, separated from the People’s Veck in Kyiv. On Grushevsky Street at the Dynamo stadium, the demonstrators managed to pull one of the buses out of the cordon. Then there was a “provocation”: young people in masks set fire to “Molotov cocktails” two police buses and attacked the Berkut fighters. The casuals were accelerated with light-shum grenades and tear gas.

At about 20:30 Moscow time, waterflies were used against the manifestants (the temperature in the city is now about -7 degrees). In response to this, people began to chant: "Baptism." The clashes on Grushevsky continue: young people, mainly with closed faces and in hoods, throw pieces of brim and "Molotov cocktails" at the police. The cordon of military personnel of the internal troops does not allow thousands of protesters to break through to the buildings of the government and parliament of Ukraine.

The Kyiv police opened a criminal case on the fact of riots. The official opposition in the incident blames the "provocateurs" and calls for peaceful protest. About 70 law enforcement officials were injured in clashes on Grushevsky Street, one was taken hostage , more than 40 were hospitalized. About 40 protesters are hospitalized with gas poisoning. Also among the wounded were four journalists. Ten people were detained.

In connection with clashes, a criminal case has been instituted under Art. 294 (organization of mass riots), reports Interfax . The maximum punishment under this article is 15 years in prison.

- clashes on Grushevsky: Chronicle from Newsru.ua

The atmosphere on the Square of Nebulia, where on Sunday on the eighth "veche" gathered, according to various estimates, from 100 to 500 thousand people, was strikingly different from what was happening on Grushevsky Street, where part of the rallys went from the Maidan - about 30 thousand demonstrators. On the Maidan, in turn, they called for peaceful protest, the speeches of the leaders were interspersed with pop numbers.

The leader of the "Fatherland" Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced a plan of the opposition. The first is to create a people's Rada from among the people's deputies. The second - this body should obtain legitimacy from the people. The third is the formation of a new constitution. “We are starting a popular vote about the distrust of Yanukovych,” Yatsenyuk quoted UNIAN .

Yatsenyuk called for acting exclusively by law and adhere to the plan. A quick victory is impossible, he emphasized. “You understand why the massacre took place there? To legalize the“ Golden Eagle ”on the Maidan. The authorities will come out and say - you see, they went to the power scenario. And the Maidan will go,” Ukrainian Pravda quotes. Those who provoke violence are not with us, we will never allow war in Ukraine, a power scenario, he announced.

Vitaly Klitschko, who tried to prevent clashes on Grushevsky, returning to Euromaidan, turned to President Yanukovych, urging "stop the war against citizens of Ukraine" and "not to follow the path of Chausko and Gaddafi." Later, the leader of the Project party went to the private residence of Yanukovych in Mezhigorye for a personal meeting with him.

The leaders of the "Avtomaydan" called on to go blocking the Rada from the rostrum. Later, on the page of one of the leaders of the movement of Dmitry Bulatov, calls for peaceful protest also appeared: “Friends, a terrible thing happened today - the coordinators of Avtomaydan did not come to an agreement, individual leaders urged people to go to the Supreme Radu. We, Dmitry Bulatov, Sergey Vysarkov and Andrei Telizhzko, were not against the unmotivated use of force, we were not bloody. They called on people to go to the Grushevsky St., tried to convince other automatic carriers and civilians who joined us, not to give in to provocations of power, ”the statement said.

Yanukovych said he was ready for negotiations with the opposition

Closer to the night, Yatsenyuk said that President Yanukovych announced his readiness for negotiations with the opposition. “They announced that they were ready to start the negotiation process,” he said from the Maidan stage, noting that Yanukovych had just called him. According to the press service of the "Fatherland", Yatsenyuk claims that the secretary of the NSDC Andrei Klyuyev is responsible for these negotiations.

“I will tell you my vision. Firstly, the mandate for negotiations is only the Maidan mandate. Secondly, public negotiations. Thirdly, our negotiations are the fulfillment of our requirements: we must have honest transparent and public policy. We will fight for this and we will create such a policy in the country,” he added. According to Yatsenyuk, consultations will now be held between three opposition forces.

In turn, the leader of the Klitschko Party, having visited Mezhigorye, said that Yanukovych promised on Monday morning to create a commission from representatives of the presidential administration, the cabinet and representatives of the opposition, which would be engaged in the decision of the crisis in the country.

The Berkut fighter was taken hostage

During the events at the European Square and at the stadium named after the Lobanovsky Dynamo, more than 70 law enforcement officers were injured in Kyiv, the Department of Public Relations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said. "They diagnosed closed head injuries, fractures, bruises and poisoning with unknown substances," the report said.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine noted that more than 40 law enforcement officers are hospitalized, four of them are in serious condition.

In addition, it became known that during the confrontation between radical people and law enforcement officers at the Dynamo stadium in Kyiv, the protesters captured one of the fighters of the Berkut special forces. "He was held in the house of trade unions of Ukraine, but law enforcement officers had already rescued a colleague. Doctors previously stated a closed head injury, fractures of ribs and nose, and shock condition," the public relations department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said.

According to the police officer, on the way in the house of trade unions and inside the building, activists constantly beat him and damaged him. After the release of the victim, he was sent to a departmental hospital.

Responsibility for the riots took the movement "Right Sector"

According to Ukrainian Pravda, active actions and attacks on the cordon of internal troops on Grushevsky Street near the central entrance to the Dynamo stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky were carried out by activists of the Right Sector. It was this organization that took responsibility for what happened, as follows from its message posted on the VKontakte social network.

The network has a video ( 18+ ), which shows how a column of Berkut fighters is attacked by a group of young men with batons. One of the special forces was surrounded and beaten from all sides.

Representatives of this organization do not approve of the plans of Ukraine to join the EU. The main slogan of the "Right Sector" was the slogan against the regime and integrations in the EU and the Customs Union. "

The “Right Sector” movement arose to streamline various extremist groups involved in the protests of the Euromaidan. The “Right Sector” included members from 14, “Trizub”, “Patriot of Ukraine”, “White Hammer”, “Brotherhood”, football fans. The militants of the "Right Sector" took part in the assault on the Presidential Administration, held on December 1.