Kiev protesters seized the Justice Ministry building at Sunday evening.
Message from Elena LukashUkrainian Justice Minister, Elena Lukash, has said she will ask the National Security and Defense Council to introduce a state of emergency if rioters do not leave the ministry building. Later the police launched a criminal case over the seizure for which the activist group Common Cause claimed responsibility for. They tell that they captured the building in order to get warmer and did not let the police in Local media reported that no one was hurt during the seizure of the building.
'Ukrainian extremists have released the premises of the Ministry for Justice, as well as of the Ministry for Energy' - wrote the Pravda in the daily hours Monday, and the then refuted the update telling that 'Maidan radicals are still in the building, they let reporters in, but do not let them go upstairs.'
A social initiative ‘United We Stand for Ukraine’ has been launched on Thursday evening by JPP ‘Create for Lithuania’. Georgian and Belarus National Platforms expressed solidarity with Ukrainians. A series of solidarity protest began in European cities to support for Ukrainians’ democratic values and freedom.
Message from Budapest
Sunday afternoon Hungarian students and their Ukrainian and Russian friends expressed their solidarity with Ukrainian protestors. The open letter of Yuri Andrukhovych was read out.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry told “We will stand with the people of Ukraine,” ....
So does the former governor of California. “I want to send a message to the people of the Ukraine to let them know that I wish them all the best of luck in their peaceful struggle for democracy and freedom,” said Schwarzenegger.
Message from Russia
"To fight for human rights by pelting representatives of law enforcement agencies with Molotov cocktails, by storming administrative buildings, by beating your fellow citizens, by causing violence in the streets of your own town - if that is a method of defending human rights, then this method must be assessed accordingly by the international community and international human rights groups," said the Russian Foreign Ministry's Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov Monday morning at a briefing, reports the voiceofrussia.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said, that the situation in Kiev threatened to "spin out of control", and said European politicians who have travelled to Kiev and voiced their support for protesters were fuelling the clashes.nd violence with firm measures." -reported the Guardian four days ago.
Message from 111
On 21st January, thousands of protestors in Kiev, received the following message from a sender appeared only as '111': "Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance" , wrote the independent.co.uk. The New York Times reported: "Ukrainian government used telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cell phones in use near clashes between riot police officers and protesters early on Tuesday.". However the interior ministry denied involvement.