French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Sunday he would meet boxing champion turned Ukrainian opposition leader Vitali Klitschko for talks in Paris on Wednesday.

"I will officially receive Mr. Klitschko at the Quai d'Orsay (foreign ministry headquarters) on Wednesday," Fabius told France 3 television, as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians rallied in Kiev for a new protest aimed at forcing President Viktor Yanukovych from power.

Hundreds of thousands of pro-EU Ukrainians rallied in Kiev on Sunday for a new protest aimed at forcing President Viktor Yanukovych to resign after he sparked fury by rejecting an EU pact under Kremlin pressure.

Waving EU and Ukrainians flags as well as the red-and-black banners of the wartime anti-communist Ukrainian Insurgent Army, around 200,000 demonstrators filled Kiev's iconic Independence Square to bursting point.

Outraged Ukrainians rallied in central Kiev on Saturday after President Viktor Yanukovych discussed a new strategic partnership agreement with Russia's Vladimir Putin upon rejecting a historic EU deal.

Several thousand supporters of Western integration braved swirling winds and a heavy snowfall to maintain control of the capital's iconic Independence Square for the seventh successive day.

Ukraine's jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has ended a hunger strike on the 11th day after pleas from the protesters in Kiev's central square, her daughter told journalists on Friday.

"On the request of the Maidan she is ending her hunger strike," Yevgenia Tymoshenko said after visiting her mother in hospital. Maidan is the name for Kiev's Independence Square and also for the protest movement occupying it.

President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych met on Friday in the Russian city of Sochi for unannounced talks to discuss signing a strategic partnership treaty, Ukraine's presidency said.

"Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Sochi," said the office of Yanukovych, who is returning from his three-day visit to China. "The heads of state discussed issues of trade and economic cooperation in various industries of the economy and preparation for a future treaty on a strategic partnership."

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has cancelled a planned visit to Malta, his office said Friday, as opposition protests in Kiev showed no sign of abating.

"Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has made a decision to postpone an official visit to the Republic of Malta planned for next week due to a need to focus his attention on domestic issues," his office said. Yanukovych had been scheduled to visit Malta on Monday and Tuesday, a source in the presidential administration told Agence France Presse separately.

The United States on Thursday urged Ukrainian authorities to heed the demands of thousands of pro-EU demonstrators, as protesters kept up a blockade of top government buildings and occupation of a central Kiev square.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, speaking at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Kiev, said Washington stood with the Ukrainians dreaming of a European future after two weeks of opposition protests in Kiev and western Ukraine.

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych met China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing Thursday, while opposition street protests continue at home in the nation's worst political crisis in a decade.

Yanukovych said that China and Ukraine were working to build a "bright future", while Xi described him as "an old friend of the Chinese people" and called for further cooperation between the two countries.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday denounced European "hysterics" over Ukraine's rejection of a historic EU deal that would have pulled it out of Moscow's orbit for the first time.

"This situation is linked to the hysterics that certain Europeans went into over the fact that Ukraine, using its sovereign right, decided at this stage not to sign certain agreements that Ukrainian experts and authorities found disadvantageous," the Interfax news agency quoted Lavrov as saying in Kiev.

Jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday called on the West to impose sanctions against Ukrainian President Vladimir Yanukovych and his family amid the nation's worst political crisis in a decade.

"Targeted sanctions against him and his family are the only language he understands," the former prime minister was quoted as saying by her lawyer Sergiy Vlasenko in a message from detention.