Video: Kyiv on the night after the longest day
Foreign correspondent Michael Petrou reports from just outside the Maidan Square in Kyiv
People hold mobile devices as they wait for Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko at a rally in the Independence Square in Kiev February 22, 2014. Tymoshenko urged President Viktor Yanukovich’s opponents on Saturday not to abandon their protests in central Kiev even though parliament has voted to oust him. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (UKRAINE – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) – RTX19BZU
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Maclean’s foreign correspondent Michael Petrou is in Kyiv where he has witnessed the transformation of a city in less than 48 hours.
In the first video, Petrou reports from Khreshchatyk Street near the Maidan Square, where the barricades are getting reinforced, not dismantled, despite the fleeing of President Viktor Yanukovych and the naming of the country’s Parliament speaker to the presidential post on an interim basis. In the second, a volunteer cook named Tatiana Romanova says that she and the other protesters refuse to leave until the protesters’ political demands are met.
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You can follow Petrou on Twitter at @michaelpetrou. His latest dispatches appear below: