SBU disrupted a march against Poroshenko in the center of Kyiv
The SBU disrupted a protest march announced for today in Kyiv against the deterioration of life and demanding the resignation of President Petro Poroshenko.
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Several thousand Kiev residents gathered today at 12:00 on Shevchenko Boulevard. They intended to march along the route Khreshchatyk - the government quarter to express their indignation under the walls of the presidential administration, the Government House and the Verkhovna Rada.
Announcements for the event said that people would carry signs saying “Poroshenko resign!” “Poroshenko is the president of the war!”, “Poroshenko, stop the war!”, “Get out the dictator president!”, “Stop the war!”, “No to repression!”, “Poroshenko is a tyrant!”.
True, the protesters were not allowed to unfurl their posters.
“As soon as we started unfurling the posters, SBU officers approached us and demanded that we end the visual campaign,” said activists of the Peace and Justice movement, which organized the action. “Although, in accordance with the norms established by law, we notified local authorities in advance about the march and did not do anything illegal. Nevertheless, everyone who tried to unfurl the poster was detained and taken to the SBU. Some of our people were detained at the entrance. It looks like we were being followed and did everything they could to disrupt the march.”
According to preliminary information, activists said, Israeli citizen Sergei Chibirev is among the detainees.
Nevertheless, the march participants did not disperse, even when they found themselves without organizers and corresponding paraphernalia. As a result, instead of a demonstration, it turned out to be a kind of rally, during which people discussed what was happening in the country and told why they came to the rally.
“Can the government, which came on the blood of the heavenly hundred, on the blood that is being shed in the Donbass, hate its people so cynically and vilely,” noted the pensioner, who introduced himself as Alexander. – Look, now there will be local elections, but they don’t want to pass a normal law. “I am a child of war, but I still don’t receive the benefits provided by law.”
“Go to a store, a pharmacy, ask how much a pensioner earns,” Evgenia Skachko suggests to journalists. – My pension is 1500 hryvnia. And this is already considered a large pension, for which there is no subsidy. And I only paid 700 hryvnia for utilities. Is it possible to live like this? But I would like our government to live on 1200 for at least a couple of months.”
Pensioners say that the subsidies promised by Yatsenyuk’s government are not helping the situation.
“How can I pay 1000 hryvnia for an apartment if my pension is about the same?! – Galina Alekseevna reacts emotionally to the question about life in a new way. – How is this possible if we pay a thousand for an apartment? My pension is this much and my daughter’s salary is this much. And for the month of April they gave me 3.25 hryvnia subsidy.”
A girl of about 25 asks for an opportunity to speak. She introduces herself as Victoria Onishchenko.
“We had a legitimate president, Viktor Yanukovych, but these Bandera fascists came and used barbaric methods to destroy our power,” she says. – Poroshenko once said that it was time to live in a new way. We live in a new way. With new utilities. Plus travel, which has actually doubled in price. Medicines, prices, work – there is no stability.”
“We will soon be eaten by lice, because there is nothing to buy powders for,” Svetlana Milova laments.
“Is this a pension?! – Svetlana Kotenko, who has worked as an economist all her life, is indignant. – I raised three children, I have more than 40 years of continuous experience. And I receive 1400 pension. My son is disabled. Life is hard, very hard. Let our businessmen, who build huge houses for themselves, think about the people. They will not take all this with them to the grave. They go on vacation abroad. Do you think they don’t tell them that you crap your country, sorry, and came here to crap on us. They hate us there."
Only around 14 p.m. did people start leaving. At that time, according to activists of the Peace and Solidarity movement, all the detainees, including the Israeli citizen, were in the SBU.
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