Yanukovich meets his ex-counterparts; Berkut fighters storm Kyiv city council building

Meanwhile, after a two-hour meeting with Yanukovich, Catherine Ashton will insist on another meeting to get explanation of Maidan’s dispersal that happened at night.

The Ukrainian President is meeting his three predecessors before the nation-wide round table discussion. It was supposed to be broadcast live, notes Euroradio. Neither opposition parties nor their leaders have been invited to the round table discussion announced on December 9.

This night the special police department Berkut started an operation on liberation the city council building from the protesters. They cut off the electricity in the building. The policemen cut the Maidan protesters off the entrance to the Kyiv city council and the Trade Unions' House. The communal services are dismounting the tent camp under the police control.

Meanwhile, the EU representation in Ukraine is trying to contact the law-enforcement authorities in order to prevent forcible dispersal of Maidan. "We admire the peaceful bravery and calm of Maidan demonstrators," the embassy's representative David Stupik underlined.

Catherine Ashton, the EU's High Representative will demand a meeting with the Ukrainian government for explanation on this nights' events. Catherine Ashton is going to meet the members of the Ukrainian opposition to hear their vision of the situation in the country. The EU's Representative has already attended the protest action in Kiev on Tuesday accompanied by Batkivschina party leader Arsen Yatsenyuk.