-- EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said after an afternoon meeting that President Viktor Yanukovych pledged to her that "something should be done in the course of the next 24 hours."
-- Yanukovych then announced he had invited the opposition to participate in dialogue. He added that Ukrainian authorities would "act only within the law and never use force against peaceful assemblies."
-- Opposition parties have rejected negotiations unless all of their demands are met. UDAR leader Vitali Klitschko said the overnight crackdown on December 10-11 meant that "Yanukovich closed off the path to any kind of compromise."
-- Early on December 11, about 10 hours after police first began to clear Independence Square and other protest sites in Kyiv overnight, police withdrew from those locations. People have returned to Independence Square and are rebuilding barricades.
-- Former Interior Minister and Yulia Tymoshenko ally Yuriy Lutsenko announced that the next major rally in the capital was planned for December 13 and urged people to come to Independence Square.
-- Prime Minister Mykola Azarov announced that Ukraine was requesting 20 billion euros in financial aid from the European Union to help lay the groundwork for an Association Agreement.
-- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland went personally to Independence Square to hand out food to riot police and protesters, then met with President Viktor Yanukovych and said the United States believed it was still possible to save Ukraine's "European future." Secretary of State John Kerry had said earlier that he was "disgusted" by the government's overnight actions in Kyiv. A State Department spokesperson said all options, including sanctions, were on the table.
UNIAN and apsny.ge are quoting Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) saying it had nothing to do with a reported request that two Georgian journalists in the country to cover the demonstrations leave the country. The SBU statement following a request for an explanation from the chairman of Ukraine's parliamentary commission for freedom of speech, Mykola Tomenko. Georgia's Tabula TV station reported that officers from Ukraine's Security and Immigration Services ordered the two to get out within 24 hours or face deportation. The TV station said the officers accused the journalists of taking part in "mass disturbances," but they refused to present an official written order. Tabula TV has run live coverage from Kyiv of the standoff between police and pro-EU protesters.
10:3711.12.2013
Ukraine's Voice of the Capital radio reminds everyone to make a wish today at 2:15 -- i.e., 11/12/13 14:15.
RFE/RL Ukrainian Service video of the occupiers of Kyiv city hall spraying security forces with a fire hose to keep them at bay on December 11.
10:5411.12.2013
UNIAN news agency reports Ukrainian Heath Minister Rayisa Bogatyrova has told a meeting of cabinet ministers that 476 Euromaidan protesters have sought medical care since November 30. She said a number were diabetics who had forgotten to take their insulin, as well as people suffering the effects of drunkenness and exposure to cold. Bogatyrova also said 84 law enforcement workers and 53 protesters have been hospitalized in that period.
11:0411.12.2013
More images coming in from events overnight and this morning.
Battling over a barricade on Independence Square early on December 11.
Occupiers of the Kyiv city hall building use a water hose to keep police at bay.
11:1211.12.2013
More dramatic images from today:
Udar party leader Vitali Klitschko (R) and other antigovernment protesters defend a barricade at Independence Square.
An EU flag lies on the ground near riot police occupying Independence Square.
Riot police storm a barricade at Independence Square.
11:1411.12.2013
Someone doesn't think much of Russian channel Rossiya 24's coverage of the Ukrainian protests.
In connection with the request for 20 billion euros in EU aid, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says, according to Reuters, "We suggest that the European Union invest in mutually profitable projects such as the modernization and development of European transport corridors, and the creation of a new corridor to the Caucasus."
11:1811.12.2013
Daily protest dog calls for impeaching authorities.
The deputy chairman of Ukraine's opposition Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party, Hryhoriy Nemyrya, has left for Strasbourg to meet with European Parliament members and EU politicians. Batkivshchyna officials say Nemyrya, who is the chairman of Ukraine's parliamentary Committee for European Integration, left Kyiv on Wednesday at the request of the party's jailed chairwoman, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
