defended its stance against the thousands in independence square, saying they, not authorities, began the violence. there s a strong instruction to the police not to use offensive means against the protesters. president obama condemned the violence. we hold the ukrainian government primarily responsible for making sure that it is dealing with peaceful protesters in an appropriate way. late tonight, a bit of hope. the ukrainian president along with leaders of ukraine s top three opposition parties declaring a truce and the start of negotiations for peace. but this is not the first time we ve seen this. just days ago, talks evolved into the bloodshed of the last two days. a hope now that this time, somehow, things will be different. let s dig deeper now. go back to nick paton walsh in kiev and bring in former long time correspondent jill dougherty currently at harvard university s kennedy school of government. also senior white house correspondent jim acosta joins us.
to overestimate how much he would care at this point. he s very much against the wall, supporters coming from moscow both financially and politically as well. as is always, really, being the case. i m sure he wants to court public opinion globally, and of course moscow doesn t want itself during the middle of the sochi games seen to be pushing things too far. but threats of sanctions are still threats. we haven t actually got a concrete plan. a visa plan on 20 ukrainian officials isn t exactly going to change what s happening behind me. we ve got key european foreign ministers coming in tomorrow. french, german, polish. that may calm things. but still as i say, everything s staying as it was during the day behind me, anderson. nick, we re going to check back with you later on in this hour for a look at how ukraine s political meltdown could trigger a whole series of consequences for europe and the united states. i want to turn to a more direct potential threat now. intelligence sug
reflected on what s happening on the street. the reason i keep looking off to my left here, we keep seeing columns of riot police moving toward the square. could be a shift change but a large number moving there at the moment. they re singing the ukrainian national anthem here. since we ve heard of the truce we ve seen no change. fireworks fired at the police by the protesters. molitov cocktails thrown as well. no sense of tension dissipating. although there seems to be this in the corridors of power, discussion at trying to find some sort of deal, anderson. and nick, the strategic positions the ukrainian military, senior u.s. defense official told cnn the ukrainian forces have moved into defensive postures around bases and weapons depots in recent hours. that would certainly seem to point to concerns about protests taking things to a whole new level. reporter: possibly. it may be the u.s. perhaps trying to say they weren t
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