Ukraine’s President Says Country’s Stability is at Risk Amid Protests
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has warned that the
country’s stability is threatened by continuing clashes between
police and anti-government protesters in the capital Kyiv.
A burnt-out line of buses and trucks in central Kyiv marks the
boundary between protesters and police.
Clashes erupted on Sunday, after many more demonstrators rallied
peacefully against President Viktor Yanukovych.
The authorities say police have the right to use firearms in
self-defence.
In a statement on Monday evening, President Yanukovych
said that “now, when peaceful actions are turning into mass unrest,
accompanied by riots and arson attacks, the use of violence, I am
convinced that such phenomena are a threat not only to Kyiv but to
the whole of Ukraine”.