Yesterday, several more regional authorities of Ukraine recognized Viktor Yushchenko as their president. Thus, the Khmelnitsky city council decided to no-confide in the Central Election Commission and not recognize the previous election results due to significant falsifications. Then similar decisions were made by a number of city councils of the Lviv region, Vyshgorod city council of the Kyiv region, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv regional councils, Lutsk, Vinnitsa, Ternopil, Lviv city councils, as well as the Kiev city council.

Yesterday, rallies in support of Viktor Yushchenko began in the largest cities of eastern Ukraine, considered a stronghold of Viktor Yanukovych. In Dnepropetrovsk, more than 2 thousand students refused to come to the classrooms in protest against the official results of the presidential elections in Ukraine. The regional headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko assumes that in the near future employees of enterprises in the region will join the student strike. A rally in support of Viktor Yushchenko, in which 50 thousand people took part, took place in Kharkov.

In a number of regions of eastern and southern Ukraine - the Donetsk region and Crimea - supporters of Viktor Yanukovych became more active and held their rallies. The Odessa regional council appealed to Leonid Kuchma with a call to introduce a state of emergency in the country, and the Donetsk regional council recognized Viktor Yanukovych as president.

Yesterday, the head of the miners' trade union of Ukraine, Viktor Turmanov, announced his readiness to go to Kyiv. He threatened that when the Donbass miners enter Kyiv, the opposition leaders will see “the sky as big as a sheepskin.” “After the defiant actions of the opposition, which today tried to 'swear in' the loser of the presidential election, Viktor Yushchenko, we intend to go to the capital to support the legitimate government,” Viktor Turmanov said.

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