KIEV: Pro-European Union (EU) demonstrators in Ukraine dug on Thursday as the United States (US) warned of possible sanctions over Kiev’s crackdown on opposition protests, urging authorities to show restraint.

The demonstrators—who have occupied the capital’s Independence Square in anger at the rejection of a landmark European Union pact—forced riot police to retreat following a pre-dawn raid Wednesday on their protest camp in a blow to the authority of President Viktor Yanukovych.

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