The Ukrainian government has made a decision on a one-time payment to the families of those killed in anti-government protests on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv of assistance amounting to one hundred living wages.

"I propose that the Ukrainian government decide on the immediate payment of a hundred living wages to each family of those killed - 104 families," Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said at a government meeting on Friday.

The government supported this proposal unanimously. Yatseniuk signed a respective document.