Protesters surround the Verkhovna Rada. Deputies can hardly hide their trembling
Several thousand people gathered at the Verkhovna Rada. Deceived investors are rallying here. They blocked the passage of transport along Grushevsky Street, accusing the authorities of fraud and enrichment at the expense of the people.
How many more thousands of people are marching along the central streets of Kyiv with a “Mirna Khoda” (Peaceful March) banner, demanding that the tariff increase be cancelled.
A few hundred meters from the parliament, near the building of the National Bank of Ukraine, there are also demonstrations of the “5.10” and “For Life” parties.
Significant police forces have been deployed to the government quarter. The day before, the SBU stated that the upcoming protests were allegedly the Kremlin’s “Shatun” plan to destabilize the situation in Ukraine. Apparently, in order to refute the accusations against them, some demonstrators today launched anti-Russian slogans.
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Institutskaya Street near the National Bank is blocked by the police; people are allowed through metal detectors to attend the rally at the NBU building. There is a knife laid out on the table near one of the frames, which apparently should mean that bladed weapons are being confiscated from those gathered (although confiscated weapons are never laid out at checkpoints). So far there have been no violations of order.
The protesters are demanding the resignation of the head of the National Bank, Gontareva, and the adoption of laws that will compensate for lost deposits in collapsed banks and repay loans taken in foreign currency.
Despite the fact that the demonstrators behaved rather sluggishly, a nervous atmosphere reigned in the Verkhovna Rada hall in the morning. Thus, deputy Victoria Syumar in her speech mentioned the possibility of shooting on the streets of Kyiv, blaming in advance the dispatched saboteurs. In addition, Syumar called on the SBU to check the involvement of deputies in organizing protests, who “fly to Minsk, and then transfer to planes to Moscow.”
“In the session hall of parliament there is a thick mixture of confusion, fear and aggression. Almost everyone at least once went and looked out the window and looked at the number of people under the Rada. They remembered the question about the deceased Maidan activist, honored the memory and immediately mixed in “all agents” and excuses for visa-free travel. The opposition bloc is threatening mass actions, the coalitionists are swearing to “stand up for power” and everyone is twitching nervously,” this is how Maidan deputy Semyon Semenchenko described the situation in the Rada hall in his blog.
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