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Ukraine's president calls on opposition to reach compromise

19 February 2014 07:35 (UTC +04:00)

"I always believed that the use of force is a wrong way to go. There is a better and a more efficient option - find a common ground. Find a compromise. Reach an agreement. I already said more than once that in this case, the government will lose power. The opposition will lose too. But, Ukraine will win," Yanukovich said in a statement released on his website.

Ukrainian president urged leaders of the opposition to dissociate themselves from radicals and warned them that otherwise he will "talk differently" with them.

Yanukovich also said in a statement some members of the anti-government opposition had crossed a line when they called on their supporters to bring weapons to the demonstration in the central square of Ukraine's capital, Kiev.

Embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has told opposition leaders that he will not call off a bloody police assault on the opposition's main protest camp on Kiev's Independence Square, opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said.

"Yanukovych said that there is only one option...to clear Maidan and that everyone has to go home," Klitschko told after meeting Yanukovych.