Members of the Ukrainian interior ministry's "Azov" battalion attend a protest against local elections in eastern Ukraine under the Minsk peace agreement, in Kiev, Ukraine, May 20, 2016. © Gleb Garanich / Reuters
Thousands of nationalists are protesting in front of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. The demonstrators are threatening to oust Ukrainian MPs and Petro Poroshenko’s administration if Kiev allows elections in Donbass.
According to Kiev police, an estimated crowd of over 2,000 people have joined the protest, although organizers have said that at least 8,000 people are attending the event.
The protesters have blocked traffic in the center of the Ukrainian capital and have marched up to the building of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), RIA Novosti reported. They are also burning smoke bombs and have set off firecrackers.
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Update: Some 5,000 protestors in Kiev call against Donbass elections (TASS).
WNU Editor: Another day .... another protest in Ukraine. But what I find revealing about today's protests is that besides Russian media, Ukrainian blogs and Ukrainian social media, and a Reuter's photo journalist .... no one else is covering this story.
As for the war itself .... according to the Kyiv Post Ukrainian soldiers are feeling abandoned .... At war front, Ukrainian soldiers feel abandoned (Kyiv Post).
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