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Ukraine’s leading opposition party, Batkivshchyna, said on Sunday some 20,000 people gathered for a rally in downtown Kiev as part of the Rise, Ukraine! opposition campaign.

Ukraine’s opposition launched a nationwide campaign in March, which calls for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and his government. The campaign is scheduled to end with a massive rally in downtown Kyiv in mid-May.

“Some 20,000 people have gathered near a monument to Taras Shevchenko, where the rally takes place,” Yulia Tymoshenko’a Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party said in a statement.

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