Ukraine Protests Spread as Overture Is Spurned
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, NYT, JAN. 26, 2014
KIEV, Ukraine — After President Viktor F. Yanukovych failed to defuse Ukraine’s political crisis by offering concessions to opposition leaders, antigovernment protests spread on Sunday into southern and eastern Ukraine, the heart of the embattled president’s political base.
About 1,500 demonstrators gathered outside the regional administration building in Dnipropetrovsk, where there were reports of scuffling with the police, while some 5,000 rallied in Zaporizhzhya, and 2,000 marched and rallied in Odessa, local news media reported.
The growing unrest — in parts of the country that are most supportive of Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russia policies and where there had been little sympathy for the protest movement — raised the prospect of widening violence and deepening political chaos while conditions in Kiev, the capital, continued to deteriorate.
In Dnipropetrovsk, in the southeast, the authorities said that they had arrested 37 protesters for disorderly conduct and that 18 police officers had suffered injuries. There were similar reports of arrests and injuries in Zaporizhzhya, another southeastern city where demonstrators sought to lay siege to the regional administration building and were held off by police officers who used tear gas and stun grenades.
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KIEV, Ukraine — After President Viktor F. Yanukovych failed to defuse Ukraine’s political crisis by offering concessions to opposition leaders, antigovernment protests spread on Sunday into southern and eastern Ukraine, the heart of the embattled president’s political base.
About 1,500 demonstrators gathered outside the regional administration building in Dnipropetrovsk, where there were reports of scuffling with the police, while some 5,000 rallied in Zaporizhzhya, and 2,000 marched and rallied in Odessa, local news media reported.
The growing unrest — in parts of the country that are most supportive of Mr. Yanukovych’s pro-Russia policies and where there had been little sympathy for the protest movement — raised the prospect of widening violence and deepening political chaos while conditions in Kiev, the capital, continued to deteriorate.
In Dnipropetrovsk, in the southeast, the authorities said that they had arrested 37 protesters for disorderly conduct and that 18 police officers had suffered injuries. There were similar reports of arrests and injuries in Zaporizhzhya, another southeastern city where demonstrators sought to lay siege to the regional administration building and were held off by police officers who used tear gas and stun grenades.
(More here.)
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