Clean-up crews this week finally cleared half of Kiev’s main street, Khreshchatyk, of barricades and tents erected more than six months ago by protesters who toppled Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich in February. But on the Maidan, or Kiev’s central square, the tents remain – and last weekend saw new protests demanding firmer action against pro-Russian separatists who have taken over Ukraine’s easternmost regions.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Financial Times: Kyiv feels pressure on truce decision
This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian presidential press-service on July 1, 2014 shows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) gesturing next to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt prior to their meeting in Kiev. Ukrainian tanks and fighter bombers launched a ferocious assault against pro-Russian separatist insurgents on July 1 after Kiev dismissed European pressure to save a tenuous 10-day truce.
