Ukraine officials suspended over police force against protesters

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Sunday suspended his deputy security council chief and Kiev's mayor after prosecutors alleged they pressured police into using force against pro-EU protesters. "The president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, suspended the deputy chief of the national security council, Volodymyr Sivkovich, and mayor Olexander Popov over their suspected involvement in a violation of rights" of protesters in Kiev on the night of November 29-30, a presidential statement said. Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka separately told journalists that the two suspended officials "pressured Kiev's police chief to use violence" against the demonstrators that night.