Protesters in Ukraine's capital Kiev have been erecting new barricades after crisis talks between the opposition and President Viktor Yanukovych stalled.
Freezing demonstrators at the camp on the city's Independence Square also occupied a government building as a truce with riot police continued.
Clashes erupted in the central city of Cherkassy where police drove protesters back from the governor's office.
The EU's enlargement commissioner, Stefan Fuele, is due to visit Kiev.
Mr Fuele played a key role in negotiating the EU's proposed partnership deal, which President Yanukovych ditched in November in favour of stronger ties with Russia, thereby sparking the current street protests.
The crisis deepened this week when the first deaths in the unrest were reported.
Two protesters were shot during rioting in the Independence Square area. An activist was found dead in woods near Kiev after apparently being abducted, tortured and left to die in the snow.
Protesters in opposition strongholds in the west of the country seized the governor's offices in the cities of Lviv, Ternopil and Rivne on Thursday.
Ministry occupiedAs masked activists stood guard in Kiev, some carrying riot shields captured from the police as trophies, hundreds of protesters could be seen stacking sandbags filled with snow and car tyres in the Independence Square area.
New barricades took shape closer to the presidential administration building, Reuters news agency reports.
One group of protesters took control of the main agricultural ministry building, reportedly meeting no resistance.
"We need to keep people warm in the frost," protester Andriy Moiseenko was quoted as saying by the Associated Press, as temperatures dipped towards minus 13C.
"We cannot have people sleeping in tents all the time."
Ministry workers were allowed to take their possessions but not permitted to go to work.
Former boxer Vitaly Klitschko, one of the opposition leaders who met Mr Yanukovych, came back on Thursday evening saying the president had made no concessions.
"Hours of conversation were spent about nothing," he said. "There is no sense sitting at a negotiating table with someone who has already decided to deceive you.
"I earnestly wish that there will be no bloodshed and that people are not killed... I will survive, but I am afraid there will be deaths, I am afraid of this."
The opposition had been calling for harsh new anti-protest laws to be repealed, a snap presidential election and the resignation of the government.
Another opposition leader, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said talks would continue but gave no details.
Appeal for restraintJustice Minister Olena Lukash also said further talks would take place, without saying when.
Speaking on Ukraine's Channel Five TV, she said Mr Klitschko, Mr Yatsenyuk and their fellow opposition leader Oleh Tyahnybok had failed to condemn "extremist actions" by protesters and the occupation of the governors' offices in the regions.
Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko issued a statement guaranteeing that police would not take action against the protest camp on Independence Square.
He urged police officers to "exercise restraint and not to react to petty provocations".
Earlier, his ministry apologised after video footage emerged showing police humiliating a protester in custody, who was made to walk around naked in the snow.
Hundreds of protesters besieged the governor's office in Cherkassy but police managed to prevent them taking control, before finally dispersing the crowd and making arrests.
During his visit to Kiev, Mr Fuele is due to meet both opposition and government representatives.
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