@dump_stack @IngaLovinde @bad_immigrant

He has two ways to go now: escalate or deescalate.

Deescalation can be tactical or strategic. Tactical - he kind-of-steps-down but actually remains at power. Strategic - he actually steps down, new elections are announced, he refrains from violence. The first buys him some time, solves nothing.

Escalation is a simple and within the logic of Russian and Soviet model of authority, solves nothing and may end him up like Janukovych.