The employees of the special division "Berkut" at 8 am on January 22 down the barricade at Grushevskogo street, in the center of Kiev, where the main line of confrontation between demonstrators and the police, and pushed the protesters into the side of the Maidan. However already at 8:30 activists launched a counteroffensive and at the moment, throw law enforcement officers with stones. "Berkut" retreated to the starting position and the protesters are trying to return the parsed siloviki the barricade. According to observers, the police have a resistance of about 500 activists. At the scene of the clashes come cars of emergency medical care. Information about the victims yet. Together with this it is noted that several opposition activists were detained. The police put up their hands and took for his own cordon. Earlier, the Ukrainian media said referring to anonymous sources in law enforcement agencies that the authorities are going to disperse protesters in the center of Kiev. Edition was agreed that the operation is planned to use several thousand employees of law enforcement bodies and internal troops. The minimum task is called mopping-up positions demonstrators on the street Grushevskogo, and the program-maximum - full sweep of the Maidan. Among other things in the press appeared information about the refusal of the authorities from conducting negotiations with the opposition, on which they had agreed. An anonymous source in the presidential administration told reporters that the government has agreed to the talks exclusively to win time to regroup forces and developing the subsequent action plan. Conflicts with demonstrators by riot police on the street Grushevskogo started on January 19. Several days of confrontation with the two sides were injured, according to official data, several hundreds (according to reliable information, the opposition is more than one and a half thousand) people. 2 people died.