Editor's Note: The Kyiv Post is providing continuous coverage of the protests in Kyiv and other cities following the government's decision on Nov. 21 to stop European Union integration by rejecting an association agreement. The rallies started on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). The events can be followed on Twitter using hashtags #euromaidan and #євромайдан or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EuroMaydan.
Watch video of EuroMaidan events here on live stream and hromadske.tv
Dec. 18, 7:13 p.m., EuroMaidan activists are helping foreigners who come to Kyiv to demonstrate solidarity with protesters. Volunteers have been organizing excursions around Independence Square in different languages and explaining them what’s going on in Ukraine for six days already, according to information posted on EuroMaidan facebook page. “Hundreds of foreigners have expressed their support already, dozens have become a part of it by cooking food, constructing barricades and guarding the Euromaidan at night, according to organizers,” reads the post. An international tent, organized by Ukrainian musician Markian Matsekh, can be found next to the building of the main post office. — Anastasia Forina
Dec. 18, 7:08 p.m., Coordinators of National Resistance headquarters are saying they’re having trouble with food deliveries for protesters on Maidan, as well as with collection of garbage. Stepan Kubiv, the commandant of the headquarters and lawmaker from Batkivshchyna, as Mykola Blavatskiy, another lawmaker, said that every delivery requires personal intervention of parliament deputies.
They appealed to representatives of local administrations to facilitate garbage collection from the center of Kyiv. — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Democratic
Alliance placed ‘bloody’ Christmas tree in front of Akhmetov’s office in Kyiv
Dec.18, 2:30
p.m., Activists of Democratic Alliance political party placed Christmas tree in front of the building of the Kyiv office of SCM
company owned by Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov on 3A Desiatynna street
in Kyiv. They called it ‘bloody’ as they decorated the tree with the photos of
victims of brutal police beatings on Independence square on Nov.30. At 3 p.m. a similarly decorated tree will be put to 3 Riznytska St., where the office of Ukrpidshypnyk, a company owned by the head of National security council Andriy Kliuyev and his
brother Serhiy, Party of Regions deputy, is located. “Kliuyev will get the
Christmas tree as he, apparently, gave the order to disperse demonstrators,
while Akhmetov controls the majority in Party of Regions in parliament. This
majority, in particular, hasn’t fired (Mykola) Azarov’s government so far,”
reads the post on Democratic Alliance facebook page. -– Anastasia Forina
Ruslana met with Jan Tombinski
Dec. 18, 1:50 p.m. Ukrainian singer and one of the main Euromaidan activists, Ruslana met with EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombinski on Dec. 18. They discussed European perspectives for Ukraine and the chances for the country to get visa-free regime with EU, Ruslana wrote on her Facebook page.
Court releases another Euromaidan activist
Dec. 18, 11:40 a.m. In the evening of Dec. 17, Shevchenko District Court in Kyiv freed
Oleh Panas, a photographer and Euromaidan activist, according to
Batkivshchyna party lawmaker Mykhailo Khmil, Ukrainska Pravda reports.
Another quiet night on Maidan
Dec. 18, 8:30 a.m. The protester camp on EuroMaidan had another quiet night last night. Entertainement was provided by singer Ruslana, who sang and MC’ed for a disco.
There were a few hundred people by the stage in the morning, the rest have gone into tents, the Trade Union House and other places to sleep. Others were guarding the barricades and the perimeter of the camp.
At night the protesters worked to strengthen one of the barricades at Khreshchatyk and Instytutska. They welded bit of metal together before wrapping it up in barbed wire. There are still big army tents set up all along Khreshchatyk Street, all the way to the city hall, which remains under control of the protesters. —Inrerfax-Ukraine
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Read the morning coverage of the Dec. 1 events here, and the afternoon and evening coverage here.
