May Day in Kyiv: an old man in an embroidered shirt tried to single-handedly stop the “Communist Sabbath” on Khreshchatyk
Participants in the march for the International Workers' Day of Solidarity walked along Khreshchatyk and held a rally near the Ukrainian House in the center of Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by the Kiev publication kiev.informator.ua
The organizer of the march was the Socialist Party of Ukraine and people's deputy from the BPP Sergei Kaplin, who positions himself as a “social democrat.” The gathering for the march took place near the Khreshchatyk metro station at 10:00. Then the column headed to European Square.
The photos published by the Informant show that the organizers managed to gather several hundred people. However, some other Ukrainian media counted up to two thousand.
People held in their hands flags with the symbols of the Social Democratic Party, the Socialist Party, the Green Party of Ukraine, the Kiev City Council of Trade Unions, state flags, as well as banners with the slogans “For decent work and a better life”, “trade unions against rising prices and tariffs under „ frozen “salaries and pensions” and others.
In general, the situation during the rally was calm, there were no provocations.
The publication Ukrinform adds that when the May Day column walked along Khreshchatyk, an old man in an embroidered shirt with a blue and yellow flag in his hands tried to block its path a few meters from Independence Square.
He identified himself as a public and political figure, Petr Shevchuk, and said that he staged a single picket in protest against this “communist sabbath.” Subsequently, the old man in the embroidered shirt walked to the sidewalk, where he continued his conversation with the police.
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