Live video of protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square from the Ukrainian website Espreso.tv.
As my colleagues Andrew Higgins and Andrew Kramer report from Kiev, on a day of upheaval, Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled the capital, the Parliament called for early elections to replace him, protesters seized control of the presidential palace and the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was released from a prison hospital in eastern Ukraine where she was being held.
Auto-Refresh: ON Turn ON Refresh Now Feed Twitter 1:00 P.M. Snapshots of Ukraine’s Abandoned Presidential Palace
After Ukraine’s president fled the capital, protesters and journalists strolled the grounds of the presidential palace outside Kiev, marveling at its opulence and posing for a series of absurdist snapshots they quickly shared on social networks.
12:45 P.M. Video of Tymoshenko Wheeled to FreedomChristopher Miller, an editor at the Kyiv Post and a contributor to Mashable’s Ukraine coverage, points to video of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko being released from a prison hospital in eastern Ukraine on Saturday evening. Ms. Tymoshenko, who is suffering from a slipped disk, was wheeled out of the prison hospital.
Video of Ukraine’s jailed opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, being released on Saturday. As my colleague Serge Schmemann explained in November, the fate of Ms. Tymoshenko â€" the former Ukrainian prime minister sentenced to seven years in prison on corruption charges after narrowly losing the presidential election in 2010 â€" was a central part of “the ferocious tug-of-war between Russia and the European Union over Ukraine.â€
12:30 P.M. ‘Yulia!’ Tymoshenko Calls Kiev After ReleaseVideo posted on the YouTube channel of Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, an opposition leader, showed him speaking by phone with obvious delight to Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister, after she was released from prison on Saturday. At the start of the video, Mr. Yatsenyuk simply exclaims “Yulia!†and pumps his fist.
Video of opposition politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaking by phone to former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Saturday. 12:13 P.M. Tymoshenko Free and a Requiem on Independence Square The center of the uprising remains Independence Square in Kiev, where a live video stream showed the apparent triumph of tens of thousands of protesters who had steadfastly refused to accept a political deal struck the day before that would have kept Mr. Yanukovych in office until late this year. Late Saturday, amid reports that the former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was on her way from a prison hospital to the square, protesters held a sombre memorial service for demonstrators killed this week.
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