Yanukovych has long crossed the boundaries of the law. But the fact that, today, he gave orders to open sniper fire to destroy peaceful, unarmed, defenseless people – this verges on the most sadistic brutality imaginable.

It’s impossible to watch without tears or despair how honest boys, who stood up for the defense of Ukraine, hide from sniper bullets behind their makeshift wooden shields. These shields cannot protect them. They fall, hit by the snipers, and die before the eyes of the entire world. They’re being killed by a person who considers himself their president. He is killing them in cold blood and calmly in Freedom Square, in the center of a European capital.

For this, there is not and there can never be forgiveness. I demand that the opposition never again sit down at the negotiating table with Yanukovych. Every one of us who breaks this taboo will be complicit with…