By Jaime Ortega.
The President of Ukraine has announced that it has reached a ” preliminary agreement ” with the opposition, the EU and Russia after spending all night negotiating and dealing with the bloodshed in Kiev yesterday, in which the deceased reached 75 .
Under this agreement, announced at noon by President Viktor Yanukovich himself the early elections will be held soon and a government of national unity will be established with a series of constitutional reforms that will cut the president’s power . This constitutional amendment would ” return to the Constitution of 2004,” in the words of Yanukovich himself, in which current presidential powers are in the hands of the Government and Parliament.
The confirmation of the agreement was previously reached in Brussels . Sources claimed that the European Union had agreed to form a transitional government , to help a reform of the Constitution and early presidential elections. According to Alexander Yefremov , head of the parliamentary group of the government, the elections will take place in December and in March 2015 .
In agreement allies that acted as mediators were foreign ministers of Germany, Frank -Walter Steinmeier , Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski , and France , Laurent Fabius , and the Russian representative for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin.
The epicenter of the protests is calmed down
Meanwhile, in the Plaza of independence, the ‘ rioters ‘ assured to ignore the existence of such an agreement according to reports from Kiev . The heart of the peaceful protests dawned on a sunny day , well away from the lived yesterday. The barricades are still in the ‘ Euromaidan ‘ , but protesters have left the combat position and simply contemplate the big screen installed in the square connected with Parliament. Not a single police has come to the area and information about an exchange of fire between protestors and police would have occurred at any barricade outside the Plaza.
Coinciding with this, police officers from other regions of the country have approached the Independence Square to show solidarity with the ‘ protestors’ and announced they stand with their cause . In turn , the deputy chief of the Ukrainian army , Yuri Dumanski , announced his resignation in protest against the repeated attempts by the Presidency to involve the armed forces in the conflict. ” If the army is involved in the civil conflict , this means mass death of civilians and military ,” said the general Dumanski . ” Hence I have decided to submit my resignation , in order to avoid escalation .”
On Wednesday , President Viktor Yanukovych sacked the chief of staff Volodymyr Zamana for his opposition to participate in the crisis. In the violent yesterday , Ukrainian police opened with the rioters.
