Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has invited policymakers to sit at the negotiating table to settle the ongoing political crisis and urged demonstrators to go home.

"Ukraine doesn't need barricades, they are weakening the country. It needs to be understood that we have common goals and objectives, and debatable issues should be resolved at the negotiating table. It is wrong to put people off their work and families," Azarov said at a rally of supporters of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on Saturday.

Azarov suggested also that, apart from the rally being held on Independence Square in Kyiv, there are no similar demonstrations anywhere else in Ukraine, and most of Ukrainians are living normal lives.