A tented camp put up on a square near the regional administration headquarters in Ivano-Frankivsk is growing as more opponents of the language bill, passed by the Ukrainian parliament, keep coming in.
The number of tents has increased from just a few on Wednesday to 40, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.
More than 20 tents have appeared with the insignia of the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union, nine of the Civil Position movement, and there are tents set up by the parties UDAR, Front for Change, Batkivschyna, and also the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, Popular Rukh and the Ukrainian People’s Party.
In the morning, the demonstrators blocked all entrances to the building, where the regional council and administration, and the city council are headquartered.
Civil servants are cleared in only after they sign a petition in defense of the Ukrainian language.
The regional, district and city councils will hold a joint meeting on the square on Thursday.
