An officer of the special police forces began conversation with demonstrators standing next to them Friday afternoon, on Hrusevskii street, where the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament building is situated, - according to local press information based on an activist’s recital.
The activist, who was rushing into the building of The House of Trade Unions, residence of the opposition headquarters, hunting for a megaphone in order to be able to keep up the conversation with the officer, told: ‘The special forces told us to go home now and then participate on the elections. We answered them that elections will be rigged, we have no way out and nowhere to go. Then the police officer replied that they were human too and we were human too, so we were brothers and that they had also a family at home and they wanted to go home too.’ The activist added that the moment might come for a reconciliation with the police.After nearly a whole day of ceasefire on Kiev streets, and an apparently easing tensions during the negotiation between opposition leaders and the government, demonstrators and government forces are back in the fight in Kiev. Police uses light and sound grenades against people and they throw back Molotov cocktails on police and burning tires to let the smoke hide them.
Moreover, opposition leaders are not anymore satisfied with changing government, they call the president to dismiss.
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, now leader of the opposition Udar Party, who returned to Ukraine as american citizen, shared with the press that in his opinion the current scenario is now following a logical order from a foreign source, however he did not mention where from.
‘Our calls have not been heard, and the agreements for truces are violated. Pavers and Molotov cocktails were again hurled at police officers who do not resort to using force, because negotiations between the government and the opposition are continuing, and a home was set on fire,’ said Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko in a statement on the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's website.