Ukraine Clashes Resume as Peaceful Efforts Deemed Futile
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Riots flared up again in Ukraine’s capital as the interior minister said peaceful efforts to end the two-month-old unrest were useless and the opposition reported another death before heading into new talks.
After a day of calm, clashes resumed shortly after 10 p.m. yesterday near parliament as demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails and police deployed rubber bullets and stun grenades. Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko said the opposition had lost control over radical activists and warned peaceful protesters to vacate central Kiev or be deemed extremists. The Svoboda party said an activist shot Jan. 22 had died.