Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday offered the opposition the post of prime minister and to change the constitution, in a proposed compromise deal aiming to end the country's worst post-independence crisis. Yanukovych offered top opposition leaders Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Vitali Klitschko the posts of prime minister and deputy prime minister in a brand new government, the presidency said.

Opposition leaders, who have called for Yanukovych's resignation, could not immediately be reached for a reaction and it was not clear if they would accept the deal. The Ukrainian presidency said in a statement after talks between Yanukovych and the opposition that the two sides had agreed the protests and the police presence in Kiev would be scaled down, raising hopes of a resolution of the crisis.

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