Ukraine
spiraled deeper into crisis on Wednesday as the government of President
Viktor F. Yanukovych and several thousand grimly determined protesters —
along with their supporters in Russia and Europe — prepared for an
extended confrontation over the fate of this fractured country of 46
million.
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As
measures of the turmoil, the authorities announced a nationwide
“antiterrorist operation” to keep guns and power from “extremist groups”
and cashiered the country’s top general, then turned around late in the
day and declared that a “truce” had been reached with political leaders
of the opposition.
But
it was clear that, with their bloody offensive to take back the center
of Kiev stalled by a ring of fire — and even the deployment of
paratroopers to help protect military bases — the Ukrainian authorities
were concerned about maintaining control, particularly in the western
part of the country.
“In
many regions of the country, municipal buildings, offices of the
Interior Ministry, state security and the prosecutor general, army units
and arms depots are being seized,” Oleksandr Yakimenko, the head of the
state security service, the SBU, said in a televised statement.
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