Commentators (click here) in Ukraine and the wider region are appalled by the use of force against protesters in Kiev's main protest camp. Front pages carry harrowing pictures from the Maidan, with headlines speaking of "rivers of blood".
...In Ukraine, the main headline in independent broadsheet Den
is a quote from a poem by Vasyl Symonenko: "There is no more room for
graves at the cemetery of killed illusions." The daily also publishes a
gallery of harrowing images from last night's clashes, headlined
"Dictatorship of hatred"."Shattered truce" is the front-page headline in the popular daily Segodnya, which is of the opinion that "Ukraine is on fire again". Speaking about chances for a peaceful parliamentary solution to the crisis, political expert Vadym Karasyov tells Segodnya that "they are melting away fast"....
Ultimately the former Prime Minister must be freed to return to her country. No army is going to stop this. They believe the future of their children is more important than their own lives. Widows are not a good idea by any government.
14 February, 15:44
...In October 2011 (click here) she was sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power during the signing of the gas supply contracts with Russia. But Tymoshenko is not planning to give up her position....
President Yanukovych is destroying his own economy. The loans from Russia will never be enough if this continues. If the Ukraine remains in chaos it's fiscal condition will deteriorate. The current path President Yanukovych has chosen will never be tolerated. A day of mourning? Really? He calls out the troops and 25 people are dead and he calls for a day of mourning. I don't think that is going to elevate his status among the people.
President Viktor Yanukovych has declared February 20 a day of mourning for those perished in the clashes between the anti-government protesters and law-enforcers, reads decree No.82 of February 19.
By Brendan Hoffman (GETTY)KIEV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 19: A hotel clerk looks out the lobby window at a barricade that was constructed on an adjacent street overnight near the perimeter of Independence Square, known as Maidan, on February 19, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. After several weeks of calm, violence has again flared between police and anti-government protesters, who are calling for the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych over corruption and an abandoned trade agreement with the European Union. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
