CHANGE: Revolutionary Zeal Returns To The Streets Of Ukraine.

The future of Europe’s second-biggest country was hanging in the balance last night as hundreds of thousands of ­people flooded cities across Ukraine, demanding revolution in protest at the President’s decision to snub the European Union for Russia.

In the biggest show of anger yet against President Yanukovych’s decision to pursue a deal with Vladimir Putin, protesters defied a hastily passed law banning demonstrations. They gathered in huge numbers, with 500,000 believed to have taken to the streets of the capital, Kiev.

A half-million people at an illegal pro-Western protest is a big deal.