Ukraine's opposition will start holding popular assemblies in different regions next week and urge people to oppose the authorities, leader of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.
“We are announcing people’s assemblies and popular uprising against the regime today near [the monument to] Taras Shevchenko,” he said at an opposition rally near the Taras Shevchenko Monument in the center of Kyiv on Saturday, the press service of the Batkivschyna party reported.
“We as opposition have decided that we need to go to grass roots, we should ask you to rise. We will begin popular assemblies next week to raise the people and address them with a single slogan: ‘Nobody will ever overcome us. We are strong and we are heading for victory.'”
He said that without the people’s support there can be neither political, nor economic victory:
“People want to hear our word and feel that there are those who will fight for their rights. And we are ready to sacrifice everything so that each citizen in this country should know – he is in charge, he has a right to the government, rather than the government has a right to a Ukrainian citizen. This is what we are going to tell the people so that they support, above all, themselves, their country, their family and their future,” Yatseniuk said.
