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First Deputy Leader of Batkivschyna party, Oleksandr Turchynov, has called on opposition supporters to go to Maidan Nazalezhnosti downtown Kyiv.

Opposition supporters who were blocked by law-enforcement bodies started gradually clearing the site of the rally.

Several protesters told an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent that they plan to gather on Maidan at 17.00.

According to the resolution approved a rally of opposition in Kyiv on Wednesday Dictatorship Resistance Committee demands early parliamentary and presidential elections and resignation of Kyiv city authorities.

The committee also demands to cancel power decision that worsen the social and economic situation, impose a moratorium on the sale of land and international agreements, which foresee the sale of Ukrainian property.