As protests in Ukraine continue to spread beyond Kyiv, opposition demonstrators took control of more local government premises on Saturday.<br /><br />Hundreds stormed a municipal building in the city of Vinnytsia, nearly 200 kilometres southwest of the capital. <br /><br />Amid scenes resembling events elsewhere in the country, riot police tried to hold protesters back to stop them from getting further into the building.<br /><br />Similar attempts have been reported on Saturday at Poltava to the east of Kyiv, and at Chernigov to the north near the border with Belarus. <br /><br />In the western city of Lviv protesters have been occupying local government offices since last week.<br /><br />However in the president’s eastern bastion of Donetsk, the past days have seen demonstrations in support of Yanukovych.<br /><br />The situation around the country varies, but anti-government protesters are said to have occupied local authority buildings in at least nine regions, with a power struggle going on in several others.
