DHAKA: Ukrainian opposition leaders have called for new mass protests against president Viktor Yanukovich’s refusal to sign a trade deal with the EU.

They are demanding new elections, and the impeachment of the president.

Rallies continued through the night, with thousands gathered on the main square in the capital Kiev.

Police violently dispersed an opposition camp on Saturday, injuring dozens of people. The president said he was ‘outraged’ by the police action.

The new rally is planned for Sunday at 12:00 (10:00 GMT).

The BBC says it may be bigger than last weekend’s demonstration, which attracted 50,000-100,000 supporters.

Jailed opposition leader and ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko urged Ukrainians ‘not to leave the authorities’ actions unanswered’.

In a message read by her daughter on Saturday, Tymoshenko urged Ukrainians, ‘Fly, drive, walk to Kiev from all parts of Ukraine, but gather everyone on 1 December’.

‘We can and should remove these authorities,’ an opposition party leader Vitali Klitschko told thousands of demonstrators outside Kiev’s St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery.

BDST: 1412 HRS, DEC 01, 2013