Resistance at Maidan resumes despite mourning, injured reported

Clashes between opposition supporters and law enforcement officers resumed on Thursday morning on Kyiv's main square, Maidan.

Firecrackers, flash bombs and flares are flying from both sides, the Interfax correspondent reported.

At least two people have already been injured - Maidan medical service has performed an indirect heart massage to an injured activist and an injured law enforcement officer was taken away.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has declared February 20 a day of mourning for those killed during mass disturbances. Opposition leaders and Yanukovych held negotiations on February 19 and agreed on a truce.

Opposition activists currently continue building up the barricade near the monument to the founders of Kyiv with metal shields and other materials at hand. Molotov cocktails are being made and bricks have been taken from the pavement around the post office for the defense of Maidan.

Ambulances are going towards Maidan and thick smoke from tires being burned covers Maidan.

Opposition activists keep on coming to Maidan from Ukrainian regions and Kyiv residents arrive as well.

Traffic police checkpoints have been set on streets near Maidan and police do not let cars pass to the center of the resistance.

At the same time, at 0910 over a thousand people came from the crossing near the Pecherska metro station and started to walk along Kutuzov Street towards the Arsenalna metro station without chanting any slogans. Some of them were reported to have sticks hidden under their clothes.