Ukraine opposition leader calls for millions-strong protest

Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk (left) and high representative of the union for foreign affairs and security policy for the European Union Catherine Ashton visiting a protesters' camp on the Independence Square in Kiev on Dec 10, 2013.
Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk (left) and high representative of the union for foreign affairs and security policy for the European Union Catherine Ashton visiting a protesters' camp on the Independence Square in Kiev on Dec 10, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP

KIEV (AFP) - Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Wednesday called for a millions-strong protest in Kiev after police moved on pro-EU demonstrators, predicting that the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych would fall.

"We will not forgive this. Here there will be millions and his regime is going to collapse," Mr Yatsenyuk, the leader of the party of jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, told protesters on Independence Square in Kiev.

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