15:37
11.12.2013
Snow barricades on Maidan #euromaidan pic.twitter.com/i14KDHg7j1
— Paulina Leonovich (@Polly_evro) December 11, 2013
15:37
11.12.2013
The Interior Ministry is also not ruling out a repeat of yesterday's Maidan raid. As long as all the paperwork is in order.
Deputy Minister Viktor Ratushnyak: "If the executive service comes to the police with a court order, then, naturally, the police will take part. And if the executive service does not appeal to us with a letter backing them up, then naturally there will be no police reaction."
Ratushnyak went on to point out that the police are currently busy investigating numerous bomb threats at the city's airports and metro and train stations.
Deputy Minister Viktor Ratushnyak: "If the executive service comes to the police with a court order, then, naturally, the police will take part. And if the executive service does not appeal to us with a letter backing them up, then naturally there will be no police reaction."
Ratushnyak went on to point out that the police are currently busy investigating numerous bomb threats at the city's airports and metro and train stations.
15:36
11.12.2013
We told you earlier about the reported bomb threats at two Kyiv airports (and two train stations), the latest of a number of similar scares this week. Both Borispol and Zhulyani airports have reopened after searches.
Kiev airports are re-opened after police searched a "bomb" in Boryspil and Zhulyany. Nothing found #euromaidan
— Левый Берег LB.ua (@lb_ua) December 11, 2013
15:31
11.12.2013
Tbilisi, whose country's leadership initialed its EU Association Agreement in Vilnius, sends a message to Ukraine from city hall.
#Georgia: Tbilisi City Hall lights up for #euromaidan #tbilisi #caucasus pic.twitter.com/uOSnqu54F3
— Mirian Jugheli (@MirianJugheli) December 11, 2013
15:28
11.12.2013
Euromaidan now. #Євромайдан #Евромайдан #Euromaidan #Ukraine #EU #news pic.twitter.com/mQxPKyTWzi
— ЄВРОМАЙДАН (@euromaidan) December 11, 2013
15:20
11.12.2013
Oleksandr Turchynov, a deputy from Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna party has suggested police may be planning a repeat raid on Independent Square tonight, UNIAN reports.
"We can't rule out that again tonight there may be a repeat attack or aggression against Maidan. Because apart from bayonets and batons, the current president has no other support. He doesn't understand the concept of a dialogue with the public."
"We can't rule out that again tonight there may be a repeat attack or aggression against Maidan. Because apart from bayonets and batons, the current president has no other support. He doesn't understand the concept of a dialogue with the public."
15:10
11.12.2013
This picture getting a lot of praise today. Many people interpreting it as a sign God is on the side of the protesters:
Photo of the Year from #euromaidan I tweeted earlier today was taken by Maxym Balanduh, not by Nina Beroeva. pic.twitter.com/GB68r4sX6p
— Jakub Krupa (@JakubKrupaFE) December 11, 2013
14:46
11.12.2013
RFE/RL video of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland's comments after a meeting with President Yanukovych:
14:43
11.12.2013
Bomb threats have been reported at two Kyiv airports and the city's central and southern train stations, UNIAN and lb.ua are reporting.
Passengers at the Borispol airport have been evacuated from terminals B (domestic and international charter flights) and D (international flights), and all plane traffic has been halted at Zhulyani airport, which handles a mix of domestic and international flights.
Searches are being conducted at all four sites. Today's threat comes after an anonymous source on Monday told an emergency hotline that bombs had been planted at the three metro sites closest to the Maidan protests, Kreshchatyk, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, and Teatralna. Maidan Nezalezhnosti and Khreschatyk were closed again Tuesday after another bomb threat.
No actual explosives have been detected at any of the sites so far.
Passengers at the Borispol airport have been evacuated from terminals B (domestic and international charter flights) and D (international flights), and all plane traffic has been halted at Zhulyani airport, which handles a mix of domestic and international flights.
Searches are being conducted at all four sites. Today's threat comes after an anonymous source on Monday told an emergency hotline that bombs had been planted at the three metro sites closest to the Maidan protests, Kreshchatyk, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, and Teatralna. Maidan Nezalezhnosti and Khreschatyk were closed again Tuesday after another bomb threat.
No actual explosives have been detected at any of the sites so far.
14:37
11.12.2013
World heavyweight boxing champion and opposition leader Vitali Klitschko, who knows a little something about physical force, said today: "With what happened last night, Yanukovich closed off the path to any kind of compromise. We had planned to have talks with Yanukovich. We understand that Yanukovich has no wish to talk to the people and only understands physical force, which he uses against the protesters."