10:25 06.12.2013

Two pro-EU protesters hospitalized from Kyiv mayor's office last night

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The situation in the Kyiv administration building, which remains under the control of pro-European Union protesters, was quiet on Friday morning.

Several hundred demonstrators remain inside the building, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.

Two people suffering from epileptic seizures were rushed to a hospital from the Kyiv mayor's office last night, an ambulance crew member told Interfax.

Most protesters have already woken up and are now discussing their plans for the day. Some of them are having breakfast.

Khreschatyk Street in the center of Kyiv is open to traffic.

Ukraine's national anthem was played on Independence Square earlier today.

Kyiv has been swept by pro-European Union protests since the Ukrainian authorities decided on November 21 to postpone the signing of an association agreement with the EU.

The Association and Free Trade Area Agreement between Kyiv and the EU was not signed during the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Early on November 30, Berkut riot police units brutally dispersed a pro-EU rally in Kyiv's Independence Square. It was reported then that 35 people were injured and another 35 were detained. Footage showing the suppression of the protest by police shocked the international community.

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians joined an opposition-led demonstration on December 1 in defiance of a court ban on holding mass events on Kyiv's Independence Square, European Square and outside of administrative buildings.

Pro-EU rallies currently continue outside the Kyiv mayor's office, the House of Trade Unions and on Independence Square.

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