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Members of Parliament from Oleg Lyashko's Radical Party and Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna Party have announced a sit-down strike.

“We’ve switching over to another form of protest. We won’t be fighting in here… We announce a sit-down strike, Lyashko said while reading out a statement by the two parties’ parliamentary factions on July 7 morning.