Troops head to Kiev as Ukraine crisis talks restart
Afp, Kiev
Troops loyal to Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko tried to enter the capital Kiev yesterday, the interior ministry said, as the feuding president and prime minister restarted crisis talks. Negotiations between Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on their bitter power struggle began more than two hours late, following a first round of talks Friday evening that ended with no sign of progress. Tensions rose when the interior ministry, which is generally loyal to Yanukovych, said ministry troops commanded by a Yushchenko ally were headed toward the capital. The deputy head of the ministry, Mykhaylo Kornyvenko, told journalists that 82 vehicles carrying 2,050 soldiers were headed toward Kiev, but that "practically all of them have been stopped in different places."
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