All appeals were in vain. The protests in Kiev escalated again, burn the barricades, violent demonstrators goad the mood to continue. Now the uprising across the country spreads out, the opposition to Vitali Klitschko slips the rebellion against the powerful.

The political crisis in Ukraine has escalated again on Friday evening. To 22 clock local inflamed hundreds of masked protesters in large part to the days since erected barricades in the capital large fire and thus provoked the just meters away and the security forces. In the hours that was what the front lines again and again to clashes. Police were pelted with Molotov cocktails and stones, and responded with tear gas and water cannons.

Within a few minutes are over downtown back in the black columns of smoke that reminded earlier this week to the days of street battles. When the riots at least five people had been killed. Since Thursday morning, however, the political leadership of the opposition had the protesters at the barricades wrested a kind of truce. After talks with the President had failed about possible concessions, however, the short resting phase seems to be over.

Ukraine Protests:Masked on the barricades, with running chainsaw

Until midnight, the police were defensive and did not intervene against equipped with steel rods, motorcycle helmets and gas masks protesters. Only now and then fired a water cannon on the warpath to clear the huge fire. Immediately, however they were infected again, still behind the store made ​​up of burned cars, garbage cans and bags of sand walls hundreds of car tires, which were gradually thrown into the flames.

The scenes at night are martial. On the barricades were dancing masked for minutes waving one of them with a running chainsaw around. Chance of injuries by paramedics were easily brought into the makeshift hospitals , most were taken either by rubber bullets or had suffered burns. How long the police will witness the spectacle that was hard to estimate at night. However, many of the protesters at the barricades seemed downright on new battles with the security forces to look forward to .

During the day there had been indications that President Viktor Yanukovych would make minor concessions after days of chaos at least . In the afternoon he announced a reshuffle for the coming week , even changes to the controversial laws restricting the demonstration and freedom of the press were in the room. Details were not provided. The opposition reacted negatively because Yanukovych had such maneuvers used before in order to gain time.

Ukraine Protests:”Yanukovych wants war, and he will get from us”

Also on Friday, a senior EU delegation in Kiev had arrived. The Czech Stefan Fule, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy, met with the heads of government and also with Yanukovych himself. However, nothing was known about the content of the talks. The EU has so far condemned the violence on all sides sharply, as if sanctions against Ukraine have been rejected. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier phoned for the second time this week with his Ukrainian counterpart, as well as with opposition leader Vitali Klitschko.

The revolt against Yanukovych is increasingly threatening to become a conflagration . Having been in western Ukraine first administrative seats of Yanukovych ‘s opponents were taken , similar reports came now from the east of the country. With the storming of the seats , the television reports after mostly took place without violence, the opposition manifested their opposition to the president. At the same time , the fear of EU diplomats , enter the takeovers of districts the hardliners in the government’s new arguments , soon auszuholen to strike back .

Vitali Klitschko urged the EU in a commentary in the ” Bild” newspaper insistently , immediately intervene in the conflict. Specifically, he called for a ” peace conference ” on , who would need high-level European representatives travel to Kiev . In the coming week , the foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Ukraine is expected. “There is no way out without international mediation ,” writes Klitschko. The boxing champion also announced for the first time that he wanted to compete as a presidential candidate in the elections demanded by the opposition .

With the new riots in Kiev, the fear seems to confirm that the political leadership of the opposition in control of the protesters lose more and more. The calls for peaceful protest and nationwide strike that Klitschko had always repeated throughout the day, stayed with the hooligans, right thugs and other riot brothers sat by protesters at the barricades unheard. “He will get from us tonight exactly that.” “Yanukovych wants war,” said one of them around midnight,

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