Monday, December 09, 2013

...and the Ukrainian Euromaidan Protestors Hold Fast

Thousands of Ukrainian protesters huddled by braziers in their tented camp in the snowbound capital Kiev into Tuesday morning, in defiance of riot police who took up positions throughout the capital as a deadline to clear the streets expired.

In a second week of protests against President Viktor Yanukovich's decision to abandon a trade deal with the EU in favor of closer ties with Russia, demonstrators feared the arrival of riot police heralded a plan to crush them by force.

"We are expecting the break-up by police of peaceful demonstrators," Vitaly Klitschko, a heavyweight boxing champion who has emerged as the highest profile opposition leader, said. "If blood is spilled during this dispersing, this blood will be on the hands of the person who ordered it ... Yanukovich."

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