Ukraine Liberal Calls for Strike, Civil War Warning - Reuters [View All]

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man the ukrainian liberals know how the hell to do it! i appluad them.

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called for a national strike that would halt transport and shut factories in protest at the declaration that his Moscow-backed rival had won election as president.

Outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, meanwhile, warned that civil war could "become a reality" in the country and he asked the world community to stay out of Ukraine's affairs.

Yushchenko said that the naming of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich to succeed Kuchma, after an election marked by mass cheating, brought Ukraine to "the brink of civil conflict."

"We do not recognize the election result as officially declared," Yushchenko told tens of thousands of supporters massed in Kiev's main square as heavy snow fell.