They've given up their ground before -- voluntarily, as a political concession. But that seems to be over.After the deaths of 25 people in clashes a day earlier, Ukrainian protesters are prepared to stand and fight again Wednesday.Police want to clear them out of central Kiev. Some of them died trying to stay put Tuesday -- using projectiles and burning barricades to keep security forces at bay at Kiev's Maidan, or Independence Square.It was the deadliest day in the months-long standoff between the government and opposition leaders.Thousands of demonstrators have packed Independence Square since November, when President Viktor Yanukovych reversed a decision to sign a trade deal with the European Union and instead turned toward Russia.The unrest intensified after an anti-protest law went into effect. Throngs of demonstrators took to the streets to protest the law.Police and protesters were among Tuesday's dead. A journalist and a government employee died, too.More than 240 others were hospitalized, Ukraine's health ministry said.Overnight, demonstrators stocked up, passing stones hand to hand, filling Molotov cocktails and stoking flaming barricades with wood and tires.They prepared a makeshift compressed-air cannon to catapult the projectiles into police ranks.
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