Vitaliy Klitschko, the leader of the Ukrainian opposition party UDAR, has called on the leaders of the EU countries, the United States, and other democratic countries to consider the application of personal sanctions against President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and other officials representing his regime, the UDAR party has said in a statement.
“Yanukovych decided after not signing the Association Agreement with the EU that he is free to commit any excesses and crimes against his own people. If this is not stopped today, Ukraine will turn into a wild police state and a source of instability in the center of Europe,” the statement quoted Klitschko as saying.
The signature of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU was supposed to be the main event during the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius on November 28-29. However, the Ukrainian government announced a week before the summit that it suspended preparations for signing the document, motivating this step by the association’s excessive costs for the national economy. T
he document was not signed at the summit, which spurred protests across Ukraine, which have been continuing for several days. Early on Saturday, police task forces broke up the so-called Euromaidan, i.e. an opposition protest rally at the Independence Square in Kyiv.
