. >> our correspondent oliver cragg is standing by. is that what you're hearing as well?that there is no going back and the protesters are still there? >> a lot of protesters are afraid they would be sent to it. if they abandoned it is as simple as that. a lot of people, i think there are a lot more people than the ones we are seeing on the square who feel extreme the concerned about the future of ukraine if yanukovytch is allowed to remain level of given the brutality his regime has shown in the three years since he was 2010.d in they are really afraid that , under mr.clearly yanukovytch, russia is a country that ukrainians looked to as it -- as a place where human rights are not respected in a way that they would like to be. up until very recently. >> gulliver, earlier you were telling us there were not quite as many protesters as there had been in the square. why is that. have you been talking to some people, and are they afraid of what has happened over the past 24 hours? >> fear has to be a part of this. it probably another part of is among some ukrainians and unwill