The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland held talks with Yanukovych on Thursday to negotiate a document that “possibly offers some hope towards breaking the chain of violence”, Tusk told reporters in Warsaw.
“Among other things it was agreed with Yanukovych that there was a willingness to hold early elections this year, both presidential and parliamentary,” Tusk said about the talks with France’s Laurent Fabius, Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Poland’s Radoslaw Sikorski.
Tusk added that Yanukovych was willing to form a national unity government in the next 10 days and to change the constitution before the summer.
The envoys held several hours of talks with Yanukovych and with the three main leaders of the opposition in Kiev, as the European Union agreed on Thursday to impose a travel ban and asset freeze on Ukrainians deemed responsible for human rights violations, violence and excessive use of force, Voice of Russia informs.
