Fonts pròximes a les negociacions entre oposició i govern van declarar a la periodista Tatiana Nikolaenko que el president Ianukóvitx va rebutjar en un primer moment les acusacions que assenyalaven la policia com a responsable de la mort de manifestants.
Sources close to the negotiations between the opposition and the government told journalist Tatiana Nikolaenko that President Yanukovich originally rebuffed accusations that the police were killing protesters.