Ukraine: With an eye on the truce and another in the revolution

The truce agreed Wednesday between President Viktor Ianukovich and opposition leaders â€" Arseny Iatsenyuk, Vitali Klitschko and Oleh Tiahnibok-returned calm to the independence square in Kiev, who the day before had been stage that which should be recorded as the blackest day of the 23-year history of Ukraine.

It is a tense environment, but no record of violence that the symbolic Maidan has been dipped in the last few hours. The cease-fire prevails, but the activity on both sides of the barricades is not suspended. On the inside, some people enjoy to recuperate, but there are also those who remain to prepare a possible new onslaught of riot police.

Vasyl is more direct and headstrong: "I don't trust this cease-fire. They are attacking us as attack us before and we will defend ourselves until the end. If we fall, we fall. "

A solution to the conflict is all Kateryna desires. "I am in favour of peace, of course. But I want this conflict resolved and that the revolution get what we all want. The Government has agreed to commitments because they're the ones who caused this. A cease-fire is a cease-fire, but, personally, I want the opposition to reach an agreement with the President, "said the activist.

Careful observer of everything that's been going on in Kiev, Sergio Cantone says that "this ceasefire seems somewhat ironic on Maidan". "Still, there is a new chance to be seized by both sides and that is to be created by the circumstances and the international pressure on President Ianukovich and other parties at stake in Ukraine," concluded our correspondent.

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