The EU was last night trying to rescue a deal to integrate Ukraine more closely with the west, as demonstrators again massed in Kiev calling on their president, Viktor Yanukovich, to sign the agreement.
EU leaders flew into a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, for their first meeting with Mr Yanukovich since his government last week froze preparations for the deal and instead reopened talks on closer ties with Russia.
Angela Merkel, German chancellor, said in Vilnius that she saw “no hope” of signing a deal with Kiev at the summit as planned, but the “door was still open” to Ukraine.
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