Poroshenko panics and gathers troops in the center of Kyiv
The Ukrainian authorities are preparing for a possible forceful confrontation with the participants of the protest, the holding of which was announced today in Kyiv by a number of political forces, including supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili.
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“The blocks around the presidential administration will turn into an exclusion zone tonight. They have already blocked Lutheranskaya Street on the far approaches to Bankovaya, along There are military vehicles of the National Guard on the side of the road. The authorities decided to fence themselves off from the demands for a change in the rules of the game and generations in politics. We've already seen this somewhere, haven't we? This madness only brings its end closer,” MP Sergei Leshchenko wrote on a social network in the evening.
Volunteer Yuri Kasyanov confirms this information.
“The approaches to Bankova are blocked,” he reports. “This didn’t happen even during the days of Maidan.” Miho is not there yet, but Putin is about to attack... Petya’s mind is unreal.”
And Member of the Ukrainian Parliament Mustafa Naeim posted pictures from near the Verkhovna Rada on his blog.
"Good morning. The entire block is cordoned off with shields. Access to Constitution Square is only through the frames. The parliament building is surrounded by a double chain of national guards and police,” writes Nayem.
At the same time, Nayem assures that the president refused to compromise on the demands of the action.
At the same time, the presidential administration assures that the strengthening of security measures in the center of the capital is not related to protests, but was caused by the alleged visit of the President of Malta to Kyiv.
Let us also note that yesterday radical nationalists, as PolitNavigator reported, captured and continue to hold in the center of Kyiv helipad.
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