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Members of the opposition parliamentary factions have claimed that participants of the Rise Up, Ukraine! Campaign were prevented from traveling to Kyiv on May 18 by the authorities.

Serhiy Sobolev, a member of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction,
said on Friday night on the Shuster Live program on Inter television
channel that such cases have been registered in Zhytomyr, for instance.

Another member of the Batkivschyna faction, Serhiy Pashynsky, said that 15 trains from various regions to Kyiv were cancelled.

In turn, Regions Party MP Inna Bohoslovska rejected the opposition’s
accusations. She said that the opposition might have failed to attract
to the May 18 rally the number of people it had planned and decided to
invent some reasons to explain why not many people would come to their
rally on Saturday.

The press service of the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Association reported
that since May 13 local officials in Cherkasy region have been calling
local Svoboda representatives and owners of minibuses and asking them to
cancel trips to Kyiv on Saturday.