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 After the Christmas holidays the opposition intends to declare a nationwide strike.

Vitali Klitschko, leader of UDAR, called for it in his speech at the public meeting on Maidan in Kyiv, Interfax – Ukraine reports.

“We call a strike after the holidays. We should all say that we will not work with this government,” he said. According to Klitschko, the government expects people on Maidans across the nation to dissolve. “We will fight to a successful end, we will not go away,” Klitschko said.

Original in Ukrainian on the Ukrainska Pravda website:

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2013/12/29/7008809/