Euromaidan participants voted against continuing negotiations with the authorities

Participants in the perpetual rally on Independence Square and on Grushevsky Street in Kyiv called on the opposition leaders to stop negotiations with the authorities. According to Ukrainian Pravda, to tell about the results of a meeting with President Viktor Yanukovych, the party leader Vitaly Klitschko and the head of the Freedom association Oleg Tyagnibok came to the Maidan. According to UNIAN, the leader of the "Fatherland" Arseniy Yatsenyuk also came to the activists.

According to the audience on Maidan Klitschko, the authorities proposed to free the detained activists in exchange for unlocking by demonstrators of Grushevsky Street. “Three days - and all the detainees will be released. They promised me it,” Ukrainian Pravda quotes the politics.

“Tomorrow about 40 ships should take place, the courts will change measures to the detainees to the detainees will be released. They will undertake that the Berkut will be forbidden to use firearms,” he said Tyagnibok that on Tuesday, January 28, in the Verkhovna Rada, the issue of a package of repressive laws adopted on January 16, as well as the bill on decriminalization of all detained participants in the events On the Maidan.

Tyagnibok asked the audience on the Maidan whether they agree to unlock Grushevsky Street so that the arrested activists would be released, as the president promised. The protesters responded with disapproving exclamations, UNIAN notes. Then the leader of Freedom proposed to vote whether to go to the proposals of the authorities or continue the confrontation. Most people voted for the second option, the agency emphasizes.

“We are not going to any conditions now. We are consulting with society,” Tyagnibok added, emphasizing that until the morning of Friday, the “truce” of the opposition with the authorities was operating on the streets of Kyiv.

As Ukrainian Pravda notes, many protesters perceived the messages of the opposition leaders critically. “We are already full of your promises! With whom negotiations to lead?”, The people shouted, surrounding Klitschko with a tight ring. In response to Klitschko’s statement that he does not want someone's blood to shed, they answered him: “She has already spilled!”

On Friday night, the demonstrators built four barricades on Grushevsky Street, RIA Novosti reports. Employees of the Berkut special forces and internal troops were nearby, but did not intervene in what was happening.

Earlier, Yanukovych said that he considers it necessary to consider the situation in the country at an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada. “Those negotiations that go with the opposition today are one part of the settlement of the political crisis. The second part is to transfer this discussion to the parliamentary platform. The proposals that will be developed during my negotiations and during the preparation for the session along with the people's deputies, they must be considered in parliament,” Yanukovych noted.

Defense of the Maidan. January 24. Photo by Yuri Timofeev:

Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov said that now in the country there is an attempt by a coup. “The real attempt by the coup is carried out, and everyone who supports this coup, should clearly say:“ Yes, we are for the overthrow of legal power in Ukraine, and not hide behind peaceful protesters. Already the feature is crossed after the so -called peaceful protesters use Molotov cocktails and seize state buildings, ”he noted. He previously stated that militants, not power, are responsible for the death of protesters on Grushevsky Street.

On Thursday, protesters captured the buildings of regional state administrations in Lviv and Rivne.

On Wednesday evening, participants in Kiev protests built new fortifications on Grushevsky Street. Thousands of people participate in the defense of Euromaidan, there are many women among them. At the Dynamo stadium, three rows of barricades are built, between the protesters and the police, the wall of fire from burning tires. Volunteers distributed food and gauze bandages.

Activists threw the Molotov cocktails and stones at the police, fired at firecrackers. In response, explosions of grenades were heard.

The situation in Kyiv worsened on January 19, when clashes of radical demonstrators with the police began on Grushevsky Street. Weapons and explosives were used on both sides. As a result of the riots, up to five people died, and several hundred received various injuries and injuries.