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The headquarters of five local administrations and the session room of a regional legislature remain occupied by protesters, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.

Altogether 37 facilities are paralyzed because they are being blockaded by protesters, Iryna Zarubynska, head of a department at the Prosecutor General’s Office, told a briefing in Kyiv.

Protesters are occupying the regional administration headquarters in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Ternopil, the city administration building in Kyiv, the district administration building in Lviv region, and the session room of the regional council in Poltava, she said.

A law put into force on January 29 prescribes amnestying protesters who took part in “peaceful meetings” if the occupation or besieging of public buildings and transportation facilities by protesters is ended before February 17.

The opposition has been insisting on the unconditional release of all the protesters who are under arrest and branded the law as a “law on hostages.”