U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Ukrainian opposition leaders Arseniy Yatseniuk of the Batkivschyna faction, Vitaliy Klitschko of the UDAR party and Oleh Tiahnybok of the Freedom party have discussed resolving the social and political crisis in Ukraine.

The parties have discussed the situation in Ukraine during a meeting held in Kyiv on Thursday and have said that it was necessary to resolve the social and political crisis in the country peacefully, the Batkivschyna press office said in a statement.

"The participants of the meeting have discussed the prospects of amending the Ukrainian Constitution as well," the document said.