Thursday 23 January 2014 14.21 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has requested an extraordinary session of parliament, saying the crisis needed "quick resolution", his office said.
Speaker Volodymyr Rybak said the parliament needed to discuss key demands of the opposition including the "resignation of the government" and controversial anti-protest laws adopted last week.
Earlier, opposition leader Vitali Klitschko urged protesters to observe an eight-hour truce in clashes with security forces ahead of talks with President Yanukovych.
He told protesters to "keep the barricades in place but (be) calm until the talks finish".
Mr Klitschko and other opposition leaders met the president this morning for a second round of talks.
Mr Klitschko's comments came after he crossed the lines to hold talks with riot police.
He told the protesters on the frontline that the security forces had vowed not to use stun grenades during the truce.
The protesters shouted that they favoured the truce, the Interfax news agency reported.
The opposition has said the president must agree to three key demands - the holding of snap presidential elections, the resignation of the government and the annulment of anti-protest laws passed last week - for a compromise to be reached.
"The chances are not great, but they exist," Mr Klitschko added.
Last night, Mr Klitschko said protesters will go "on the attack" if President Yanukovych does not offer concessions.
He said Mr Yanukovych could resolve the situation without bloodshed by calling early elections.
Protesters and police are locked in a tense standoff at the site of deadly clashes that activists said left five dead.
The demonstrators had overnight further fortified their barricades with sandbags filled with snow.
Their frontline was marked by burning tyres which were still on fire in blazes that the police had been unable to extinguish despite the use of water cannon.
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Meanwhile, Russia said it will not intervene in the anti-government protests in Ukraine and believes its leadership will find a way out.
President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "We consider we do not have the right to intervene in any way in the internal affairs of our brother Ukraine.
"That's unacceptable and Russia has not done this and will not do it."
Mr Putin has yet to comment personally on the latest violent clashes in Kiev in which five activists have been killed, four of them reportedly with gunshots, and police deployed tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.
The protests broke out in November after President Yanukovych rejected a deal for closer integration with the European Union under pressure from Russia.
Mr Peskov said that the Kremlin viewed events in Ukraine "with huge attention, with anxiety and sometimes with pain," but was confident President Yanukovych would resolve the situation.
Mr Peskov complained that "foreign ambassadors who work in Kiev are talking about what the Ukrainian authorities should do, from where it should withdraw its internal troops, from where it should withdraw police and so on".
"From outside they are telling them what to do. For us, this is an absolutely inconceivable situation. Of course we cannot approve this and instead it makes us feel outraged," he added.
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