The leaders of the opposition parties UDAR and Svoboda, Vitali Klitschko and Oleh Tiahnybok, met with protesters on Kyiv's central Khreschatyk Street on Thursday evening after talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and urged them to continue to observe the truce.
Tiahnybok told protesters that Yanukovych had promised to include the possibility of repealing the January 16 anti-protest laws, the issue of the government’s responsibility and ways not to prosecute all participants in the riots on the agenda of a special parliamentary session, set for January 28.
Apart from that, Kyiv courts will be given three days to agree to release protesters who were detained earlier from remand centers and place them under house arrest, he said.
The authorities also vowed to ban the country’s riot police from using firearms, Tiahnybok said.
The situation in the center of Kyiv, where a tense standoff continues between protesters and riot police, was relatively quiet as of 2340 on Thursday.
