KIEV: The Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich held negotiation with the opposition leaders and a working group in the presidential administration building on Wednesday as unrest in the capital Kiev entered fourth day which has left over 200 of protesters and police injured.
However, no information about the meeting has yet been received.
The protesters are pelting police cordons with stones and Molotov cocktails, and police is retaliating with flash grenades and rubber bullets. However, the Ukrainian defense minister said that the army will not be deployed to take part in the events, connected to the protest in Kiev.
Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian police shot dead three anti-government protesters in Kiev during a rally organized in defiance of a recently adopted anti-protest law in the Eastern European country.
In a statement, local prosecutor’s office spokeswoman said that the police have arrested around 10 persons on suspicion of using weapons, baseball bats, curbstones and Molotov cocktails.
The violent protests were triggered in Kiev after the government refrained from signing an Association Agreement with the European Union at the third Eastern Partnership Summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on November 29 last year in favor of closer ties with Russia.
Later, Ukraine and Russia reached a strategic economic and trade deal last December, which provides Ukraine with significant discounts on imported Russian gas and billions of dollars in credit.
