Eighteen Chornobyl cleanup veterans continue their hunger strike in front of the Ukrainian House of Government in Kyiv's Mariinsky Park. About 70 sympathizers are staying with them.
One of the protest organizers told Interfax that they spent the night in the park. The police did not force them to leave, but did not permit to put up a tent either.
The veterans kept warm with blankets and thermal underwear.
The organizer said they would continue the protest against the reduction of their pensions on Thursday.
Meanwhile, assistant to Verkhovna Rada deputy Andriy Pavlovsky, Artem Kolesker, told Interfax-Ukraine that Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc members were ready to accommodate the veterans in their tents, which have been erected near the Pechersky Court building to protest Tymoshenko’s conviction.
The assistant said the veterans might accept the offer to spend the night there and might remain in the Bloc’s tents after that.
"We will spend the day here. I do not know what might happen at night," the representative of the Chornobyl cleanup veterans said, in turn.
