Rapidly moving story
President Ukraine fled capital overnight
Protestors stormed government buildings
Appear seized control center Kiev
Dramatic turn events week plagued violence hundreds
casualties
Questions remain
End story
Putin-backed government collapsing
Opposition forces succeed
Regime regrouping preparing mount ferocious assault
protestors
Russia ominously
intervene militarily Ukraine
splits
President Obama called Russian President Putin Friday
Hopes persuading Kremlin support E.U. negotiated truce
Moscow’s
intentions unclear
CNN reporting Ukraine’s
plans tap Russia
$2 billion emergency funding fallen apart
Country sliding economic disaster
Russia
said ready buy Ukrainian bonds
Part $15 billion package agreed December
Cold feet anti-government protests escalated
Ukrainian finance ministry canceled planned bond sale
Thursday
Needs cash repay $13 billion debt
Putin worked turn Ukrainian government away West
Offering $15 billion aid
Analysts differ extent Russian leader pulling strings crisis
Size Ukraine’s
population less economy valuable asset
Eurasian Union Putin building post-Soviet
Harvard’s Simon Sardzhyan noting Putin advisers see
Russians Ukrainians Belarusians one people draw Ukraine
Moscow’s orbit
Yanukovich never Russia’s
man says Dmitri Trenin director Carnegie
Moscow Center
Myth difficult partner Russia unreliable let down
occasions not trusted
Protesters took control capital Saturday seizing president’s
office
Parliament sought oust
Sought form new government
CBS News
Aide President Viktor Yanukovych said left Kiev support base country’s Russian-speaking
east
No intention abandoning power
CBS correspondent Holly Williams reports Kiev
Police force now serves people shares desire speedy change
Special parliament session lawmakers warned country risks
split
Country’s western regions want closer EU
Rejected Yanukovych’s authority many cities
Eastern Ukraine bulk economic output favors closer ties Russia
People risen achieved goals
Authorities crumbling
Victory sight
31-year-old construction worker Sviatoslave Gordichenko
outside residential compound belong Yanukovych
Opposition unit control presidential palace outside Kiev Saturday
Leaders in Parliament Ukraine’s president Viktor F.
Yanukovych fled capital day after
Deal reached ending country’s spiral violence reports New
York Times
Members opposition group Lviv called 31st Hundred
carrying clubs wearing masks
Control entryways palace Saturday morning
Three opposition leaders one Vitali Klitschko signed deal
end violence
Said Mr. Yanukovych left capital whereabouts unknown
Members opposition speculating gone Kharkiv northeast Ukraine
Protesters claimed established control Kiev
Saturday morning secured intersections city government
district
Police officers fled leaving burned military trucks
mattresses heaps garbage positions occupied months
Wall Street Journal government authority melt Saturday
leaving protesters take control capital’s center
President Viktor Yanukovych left city country’s
Russian-speaking east
Allies said no intention giving up power
Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko called parliament vote
oust Mr. Yanukovych
Called announce presidential elections May
Police withdrew center capital. Mr. Yanukovych not appear publicly Saturday
Day after signing agreement share power opponents call new
elections
News agencies quoted aid saying continuing fulfill
constitutional duties
Planned appear television later Saturday Kharkov
Scheduled meet voters participate meeting legislators
country’s Russian-speaking south east
Reported opposition leader former Prime Minister Yulia
Tymoshenko expected released prison
Saturday volunteer security brigades protesters security
government buildings capital
Journalists reported 300 people entered Mr. Yanukovych’s
opulent suburban residence no resistance.
Original written by
Joel Rosenberg. Compare to the original. Do some subjects lend themselves better to
the deconstructed style than others?
