
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych is ready to resign the government and carry out constitutional reform. According to Liga. News with reference to the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Elena Lukash, the leader of the Fatherland Party Arseniy Yatsenyuk is invited to head the Cabinet of Ministers. The President Vitaly Klitschko, the president, offered the post of deputy prime minister on humanitarian issues. In addition, Yanukovych called Klitschko to public debate "to ensure a wide public dialogue," he agreed.
At the next meeting of Yanukovych with the three opposition leaders, a return to the 2004 Constitution and the transition to the Parliamentary President Republic were discussed. Yanukovych does not exclude that the new constitution will be submitted to a popular vote after adopting the relevant amendments to the Law on referendum.
The presidential press service claims that an agreement has been reached on the termination of street confrontation. "The parties agreed that the squares and streets of the city of Kyiv will be gradually liberated both protesters and law enforcement officers," the official report said.
Yanukovych agreed to free the detainees of the defenders of the Maidan and declare an amnesty subject to the "urgent liberation of the illegally seized premises of local authorities and the termination of radical actions." "The opposition leaders should immediately ensure the full departure of people from Grushevsky Street," the press service said in a statement. In this case, the Prosecutor General will invite the courts to mitigate the preventive measure to detained activists.
Yanukovych repeated that he was ready to soften the "dictatorial laws" adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on January 16. "We proceed from the fact that we are ready to amend these laws and work together with our political opponents to achieve a compromise under these laws and amending those laws regarding which we will find a political consensus," the press service said.
It is claimed that a compromise has been reached on the formation of the Central Election Commission in proportion to the sizes of parliamentary factions.
The third round of negotiations lasted more than three hours. In addition to Klitschko and Yatsenyuk, the leader of Freedom Oleg Tyagnibok participated in it. On Thursday, Klitschko said that according to the decision of the Maidan, only the resignation of Yanukovych could be the subject of negotiations. Yatsenyuk emphasized before the third meeting with Yanukovych that negotiations were continuing at the request of the Council of Churches. "" All the Churches of Ukraine turned to us to continue negotiations and blessed us for negotiations, "Yatsenyuk said.
During the negotiations on Grushevsky Street, a truce was established: the police stopped working from the police, and a wall of auto -openers was partially extinguished. Meanwhile, protesters built a whole network of barricades.
On Saturday, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vitaly Zakharchenko called on demonstrators to leave the center of Kyiv and continue to protest peacefully outside the Independence Square. The remaining, according to the minister, will be considered extremists. Zakharchenko’s appeal is published on the website of the department.
“We will consider those who remain on the Maidan and in the captured buildings extremist groups. And, in case of danger and transition of radicals to active actions, we will be forced to apply force,” Zakharchenko emphasized.
“Leave the radicals, no one will interfere with peaceful protest, go to any other, safe place. I, as the Minister of Internal Affairs, guarantee you the assistance in this police and security of peaceful protesters,” the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs added.
The minister also reported that the law enforcement agencies managed to free two police officers captured on the eve of the Maidan guards in Kyiv. According to him, captured police officers were tortured and are now hospitalized. The caught employees were kept in the building of the Kyiv city administration, held by the opposition, which is why the police had previously threatened the building with a day.
The fact that the protesters captured three guards of order, and one of them was wounded with a knife, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported early in the morning on Saturday.
Then, in the Goloseevsky district of the city, the body of an employee of the State Security Service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine with a deadly firearm wound was discovered. According to the Ukrainian media, he lived in a hostel, where the Berkut fighters were determined.
The headquarters of the national resistance, in turn, said that the “false statements” of the police about the attack of the Maidan’s security for police officers could be the reason for the power stripping of the opposition camp in Kyiv.
"The headquarters of national resistance categorically denies such a fact and considers a conscious provocation in order to set up a police against protesters. I do not want to believe that the murder of a policeman could be used for the same purpose," the headquarters added.
“Given the fact that these messages have already provoked the continuation of the fighting on Grushevsky, we believe that this could be the reason for the power“ cleaning ”of the Maidan. The use of force is unacceptable, since only one thing will entail - the escalation of the confrontation and violence in the country,” the statement emphasized.
The confrontation between security forces and opposition activists on Grushevsky Street in the government quarter of Kyiv resumed on Friday evening. According to some sources, active actions began due to the fact that the Golden Eagle opened fire on the protesters with rubber bullets and wounded one activist. The police insist that the survivors broke the truce on Grushevsky Street - they allegedly provoked the security forces. After the resumption of the confrontation, thousands of opposition activists came to the barricades, they set fire to the tire chain located on the first barricade. The shooting resumed with rubber bullets. There are victims on both sides of the conflict.