Protesters captured the buildings of regional administrations in Lviv and Rivne

Participants in the protests in Lviv captured the building of the regional state administration, the local edition Zaxid.net reports . The police did not interfere with them. The head of Log Oleg Salo was forced to write a resignation statement.

About two thousand residents of Lviv came under the walls for a promotion as part of a common Ukrainian strike. Then they massively began to enter the building and announced that they "take power into their own hands."

The head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Lviv region, Alexander Rudyak, said that he did not see violations of the law, because there is a peaceful action of protest, and not mass riots. "I do not see the grounds for opening criminal proceedings, since a peaceful action of the protest is taking place, people came to the reception to power," he said. Answering the question of one of those present, he said that if there are no mass riots, then there will be no persecution.

At the time of the capture of the building, Salo was in one of the regions of the region. When he returned, the protesters demanded that he write a resignation statement, which he did. After that, the fat was released from the administration building. His statement was registered in the office. Salo himself informed Zaxid.net that he had not yet communicated with the president about this, but he would do it soon. However, then the governor said that he wrote a document under pressure and was not going to resign.

Subsequently, people who seized the Log building voted to create the executive committee of the Lviv region.

The capture of the Lviv regional state administration

In Rivne after the People’s Veche, several thousand people also seized the building of the regional state administration, Ukrainian Pravda reports . At the same time, they broke several glasses and knocked out the doors. Deputy heads of the Regional State Administration Anatoly Yukhimenko and Alexei Gubanov came to the protesters. They agreed to transfer to President Viktor Yanukovych the requirements of the protesters to remove Berkut from Kyiv streets.

Activists decided to create a folk Rada, which will control the OGA. In addition, self -defense units (hundreds) are created, which will replace law enforcement officers.

Protesters also surrounded the buildings of regional administrations in Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhitomir and Poltava, Ukrainian Pravda reports . In Ivano-Frankivsk, some of them managed to go to the office of Governor Vasily Chudnov. They demanded him to write a resignation statement, but he refused, saying that only the president’s decree would force him to do this.

In Zhitomir, the deputies of the regional council at first did not support the proposal to make a question about the socio-political situation in the country on the agenda of the session. Only 44 deputies out of 88 voted for the proposal of "Fatherlands. Learning about this, the picketers tried to break into the building. After the assault attempt, the proposal gained 76 votes.

In Poltava, Vitaly Emets, the head of the city police surrounded the regional administration surrounded the building, reports Interfax-Ukraine. He took off his hat to honor the silence of the activists killed in Kyiv, and together with everyone sang the anthem of Ukraine. After that, protesters abandoned the intention to seize the building.

The administration building was captured by protesters in Ternopol, the publication "Behind Zbruch" reports . There were no representatives of the authorities in it by that time. A few police officers left posts and retreated to the protesters. The building included several hundred people. They sing carols and shout "gang gate!". Other Ternopolians are in the yard. The cars that drive nearby are alarm in support. People continue to arrive.

In the evening, the assault on the regional administration began in Cherkasy. Several thousand people participate in it. However, inside the building were the Berkut fighters who have strong resistance. Explosions of light -school grenades are heard. From the windows of the assaults are watered with water.

On Tuesday, deputies of the Lviv Regional Council said they urgently traveling to Kiev and, if necessary, will hold an exit session . "The authorities purposefully provoked a power confrontation and ultimately achieved its own," the authors of the statement emphasized. The deputies of the Lviv Regional Council have the guilt and responsibility for the escalation of political confrontation on the Ukrainian authorities. "The impudent rudeness with which the powerful majority in the parliament was neglected by the laws and the Constitution of Ukraine, overwhelmed the cup of popular patience," the statement noted.

The deputies also turned to the leadership of the power structures of the region with a request not to send the fighters to war against their own people. "

From Monday , the Lviv people continue to block two parts of the internal troops and one part of the Berkut special forces. Fighters, when there are no leadership near them, thank the protesters for not allowing to go to Kyiv.