Members of Ukrainian volunteer battalions and activists of various nationalistic organizations, including Right Sector, which is banned in Russia, on Friday evening were rallying to demand that the fighting in Donbas be resumed in front of the Dynamo stadium in Kyiv, where first clashes between opposition activists and security forces took place during the 2014 events in the Ukrainian capital.
About 1,000 people, among them many wearing military uniforms, gathered near a monument to Valeriy Lobanovsky on Friday evening, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported from the scene.
The demonstrators were demanding that the authorities stop prosecuting and discrediting members of volunteer battalions and the entire volunteer movement and resuming the fighting in eastern Ukraine to liberate “the occupied territories.”
The rally was proceeding without incidents.
The demonstrators had earlier marched in a column through the government quarter toward the Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) and further to the Dynamo stadium on Hrushevsky Street.
