KIEV (AP) — A resolution to Ukraine’s political turmoil remained elusive today as thousands of people continued rallying on Kiev’s Independence Square and besieging key government buildings.

President Viktor Yanukovych was out of the country on an official trip to China and the government showed no signs of yielding. Law enforcement bodies have brought dozens of charges against demonstrators, and nine people remain in detention following Sunday’s rally when several hundred thousand protested Yanukovych’s decision to freeze ties with the European Union and use force against a handful of peaceful demonstrators last month.

Demonstrators have set up scores of tents on the square, the epicenter of protests against the Ukrainian government, and blocked several streets leading to it with tall barricades of wooden pallets and random material.