KIEV: Ukraine's opposition rejected an offer from president Viktor Yanukovych on Friday to sit down for talks as thousands of protesters reinforced their positions in Kiev.

The talks snub came as demonstrators prepared for another mass rally Sunday to pressure the president to turn away from historical master Moscow toward the EU and Ukraine's richest man Rinat Akhmetov called on all parties to find a peaceful solution to Ukraine's deepest political crisis in a decade.

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