An ambulance car took on Saturday morning another participant of a hunger strike in support of the Ukrainian language outside of the Ukrainian House in Kyiv.
Olha Dovhaniuk, aged 21, from Ivano-Frankivsk was hospitalized after significant deterioration of her health condition, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian House public initiative, Kseniya Korobchuk, told Interfax-Ukraine.
The activists’ page on Facebook said that Serhiy Kvit, the president of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where the girl studies, and her friends went to the hospital with her.
Korobchuk said that Dovhaniuk had been the third person to be taken to hospital since the start of the campaign. One of the hospitalized, a superintendent of the protesters’ camp, Anatoliy Pikul, was not involved in the hunger strike.
According to the spokeswoman, some ten protesters participating in a hunger strike currently stay outside the Ukrainian House. Kyiv residents join the rally now and then.
As reported, the Ukrainian parliament adopted the language law that allows more extensive use of the Russian language on July 3. A rally that gathered about 700 people started near the Ukrainian House immediately after the voting. Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn and his deputy, Mykola Tomenko, submitted statements of resignation, but the lawmakers refused to consider the questions of their resignation.
