Yanukovych backs holding talks with opposition on crisis

Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych has backed holding roundtable talks with the opposition after two weeks of protests and will meet three ex-presidents to discuss the crisis Tuesday, his press service said. Yanukovych supported the initiative of the roundtable proposed by Ukraine's first ex-Soviet president Leonid Kravchuk "which can be a place to reach understanding," the presidential statement said. "On Tuesday, there is a planned meeting of four presidents of Ukraine... to discuss the key issues the country is facing," it added. Yanukovych will meet Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko.