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An ominous sign outside the headquarters of Ukraine's Batkivshina or Motherland opposition
party. Masked men with guns guarding the entrance to the building which is home to the Kiev
offices of the party of the country's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who currently
languishes in a Ukrainian prison. These women screaming out of a window: They are blocking
us. They won't let us out." The mysterious men eventually leaving on a handily parked
bus. The party blamed the police at first, who denied responsibility. The SBU, the state
security service, now in the frame. Party workers claim they destroyed their server
room, and the offices used by the Cezur Net website and the Vechirnyi Visti newsroom.
Doors kicked in, searches carried out and equipment dragged out and destroyed and no
explanation given or responsibility taken. Tense times in Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands
taking to the streets of Kiev on Sunday demanding President Viktor Yanukovich stand down. Increasing
anger over his switch away from the European Union towards greater ties with Russia, the
country's former ruler. Current party leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk refusing to be intimidated:
If the president thinks that through the help of law enforcement agencies and Berkut riot
police he can solve Ukraine's political crisis he is deeply mistaken, because 10,000 policemen
cannot solve the problems facing a country of 45 million. If he thinks he can scare us
through searches and arrests, he is mistaken as well.
The under-pressure president backing calls for talks to end the crisis.