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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/fe...ve-updates
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/eur...37287.html
Quote:Major Developments:
Feb. 22, 1:33 p.m. Parliament votes to immediately free ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison in Kharkiv. She is expected to come to Independence Square in Kyiv once she is released."
Feb. 22, 1:44 p.m. Turchynov appointed acting prime minister.
Parliament breaks until 4 p.m. (9am EDT), expected to vote on impeachment of Yanukovych then.
Feb. 22, 2:12 p.m. Yanukovych staff appear to have destroyed/attempted to destroy documents in Presidential Palace.
Feb. 22, 3:06 p.m. Not KyivPost, but BILD's Paul Ronzheimer reports "Yanukovuch ready to resign" Link[2] . Rumblings from several smaller media outlets saying the same.
Feb. 22, 3:14 p.m. Ukrainian Pravda News reports Yanukovuch has resigned. Announcement will come soon. Link[3]
Feb. 22, 3:16 p.m. Yanukovych advisor Hanna Herman denies President Yanukovych has resigned – Interfax Rumors continue to grow, however. Many in Kyiv celebrating with fireworks amidst report.
Feb. 22, 3:18 p.m. Main page of KyivPost "Reports: Yanukovych has resigned". Not confirming it themselves though.
Feb. 22, 3:22 p.m. "The resignation of the president is still oral" - Katerynchuk via Ukrainian Pravda News Link[4]
Feb. 22, 3:24 p.m. Opposition MP Mykola Katerynchuk says: "Yanukovych gave an oral promise to resign”
Feb 22, 3:43 p.m. Ostap Semerak, an advisor to opposition leader Arseniy Yatseniuk, confirmed to the Kyiv Post that the opposition leader had spoken to President Viktor Yanukovych, who said he had resigned. -- Katya Gorchinskaya - KyivPost
Feb 22, 4:00 p.m. It appears Yanukovych was on live television in Kharkov in the last few minutes saying he would NOT resign.
Feb 22, 4:19 p.m. Yanukovych also said that many politicians from supporting parties had been threatened and coerced to resign.
History in the making, I guess.