Entry 8th February 23th

Ukraine’s future hangs in the balance as Yanukovych is impeached, opposition icon freed

Tanya Talaga 

Toronto Star

The politics in Ukraine has changed again. One day after a compromise was signed to end a bloody week in the capital of Kyiv. After 24 hours after the compromise was signed between the Ukrainian President Viktor Yunakovych and the opposing leaders. The President left the country. He then was impeached and demonstrators provided security to the abandoned government building. The next election was scheduled for May 25th. He leading opponent Yulia Tymoshenko was released form jail and the head of the Army said he would not get involved. Yulia made her way from the eastern Ukraine to Independence Square to talk to the pro-democracy movement that freed her after two years behind bars.From her wheelchair she told the crowd "The people who died here are the heroes." He suffered severe back problems from the time she served in solitary confinement . 

Yanukovych left to Kharkiv a Russian-speaking part of Ukraine where he holds most of his political power. “They are trying to scare me. I have no intention to leave the country. I am not going to resign; I’m the legitimately elected president,” a shaken Yanukovych said in a televised statement.

Nearly 100 hundred people died and many more injured after the pro-European demonstrators stood up to Yanukovych failed to tie Ukraine closer to Europe. The demonstrators are known as the Euromaidan. The protesters began a peaceful tour on Nov 21st after Yanukovych stopped pursuing the European economics ties and get better support from Russia.  

The violence in Ukraine cause by Yanukovych when the government forces shot live ammunition at a demonstrators last week. Peaceful protests can often turn into riot if and extremist wants to turn it in to a riot like it happened last week. Things like this should not be allowed to happen because of the risk it bring to people there. Over all what is happening in Ukraine is likely to last for a while and wont be good for the country.