Ukrainian protesters have broken police lines to advance on buildings controlled by the main governing party. Reports have emerged that three protesters have been killed.
Continuing the opposition’s long fight,
20 000 people massed Tuesday outside parliament to push lawmakers to
return Ukraine to its 2004 constitution, under which key powers would
shift from President Viktor Yanukovych to legislators. In what the
opposition had called a “peaceful offensive” to pressure lawmakers, the
demonstrators marched from Kyiv’s Independence Square, where protesters
have maintained their headquarters over three months of uprising against
Yanukovych’s rule.
Opposition lawmakers joined the protesters in the streets. Inside
parliament, deputies from those parties blocked the speaker’s dais after
Volodymyr Rybakrefused to put the reform initiatives on the daily agenda.
