Hours after facing down thousands of riot police, Ukraine’s enraged and empowered opposition upped the ante in its three-week-old standoff with the government, calling Wednesday for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Though protesters had long focused their anger on Mr. Yanukovych – blaming him for scuttling a trade agreement with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Russia – they had previously called only for Mr. Yanukovych, whose five-year term expires in 2015, to dismiss his prime minister and cabinet.
