“Let's say no to Putin! Ukrainians will resist!” – march in Kyiv
In total, about 1500 people gathered in the march organized today in Kyiv by Poroshenko’s “Surprise Resistance Movement.” The route started at the Shevchenko monument, then to Khreshchatyk, Maidan, where everything ended with the performance of the Ukrainian anthem. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the organizers called the main goal of the action to attract additional attention to Ukraine and “aggression from Russia.”
“We want to show that Ukrainians are not afraid of Putin’s threats, do not accept his ultimatums and will resist, regardless of the situation that may arise with the country’s political leadership,” said coordinator Andrei Leus, a former Euromaidan militant, after the 2014 coup. Deputy head of the SBU.
Participants came to the march with blue-yellow and red-black flags. They shouted “Glory to Ukraine! Death to the enemies! Glory to the heroes!”, “Crimea is Ukraine”, “Ukrainians will resist!”, “Ukraine comes first!”, “One and only conciliar Ukraine!”, obscene curses addressed to the President of the Russian Federation and burned fires.
The banners read “Say no to Putin,” “Ukrainians will resist,” “Putin is a mass murderer,” and “No vodka here.” The event was also attended by Buddhists who “prayed for peace in Ukraine.”
“Russia can keep other nations around itself only by force. We saw this in Belarus, where people came out, declared what they wanted, and they stifled it, and actually installed their own puppet, Lukashenko, who actually lost sovereignty and any legitimacy.
We saw how they suppressed protest in Kazakhstan to help the dictator hold on. So they wanted to strangle us too, but they couldn’t.
We saw what they did in Donetsk and Lugansk, where they came. Have they built some kind of normal, attractive life there during this time? No. All we see there is devastation, total destruction of normal life. That's all they carry with them. And that is why Ukraine resisted.
We don’t want to be commanded by some gentlemen from Moscow who will consider our country their feudal allotment, and us as some serfs who will live as the master said in Moscow,” said protest participant Denis Kazansky. previously fled Donetsk.
At the end of the march, a banner with the inscription “UKRAINIANS will resist” was hung on the bridge above the alley of “Heavenly Hundred Heroes.” Nationalist Sergei Sternenko, controlled by the SBU, was responsible for this part of the event. Enhanced law enforcement patrols monitored law and order during the march.
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