Yesterday, at the initiative of the UDAR party, an all-Ukrainian warning strike took place, lasting from 12.00 to 13.00. In Kyiv, UDAR activists held a procession (pictured) from Independence Square along the streets of B. Khmelnitsky - Vladimirskaya - Andreevsky Descent to Kontraktova Square. About 100 people took part in the event. They called on citizens for an all-Ukrainian strike, the date of which has not yet been determined.

A Kommersant correspondent who was on Khreshchatyk yesterday made sure that all trading enterprises located, at least within the perimeter of the territory controlled by the Maidan participants, were working as usual. According to estimates by the chairman of the All-Ukrainian Strike Committee, People's Deputy Sergei Kaplin (UDAR), in the country as a whole, over 1 million people went on strike yesterday, with the most active ones in the cities of Central and Western Ukraine. For example, in Lvov, according to Kommersant's estimates, the strike was supported by more than 700 people: students, employees of the city council, and the Lvov State Jewelry Factory came to the building of the Lviv City Council. According to Mr. Kaplin, enterprises of Ukroboronprom, where there are wage arrears, were also on strike. “One of these “leaders” is the city of Nikolaev,” Mr. Kaplin told Kommersant.

Deputy Chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine (NPGU), Anatoly Akimochkin, explained the insignificant number of strike participants throughout the country by the unconvincing reasons for its holding. According to him, strikes usually occur not for political reasons, but for “socio-economic reasons - for example, when there are long-term non-payments of wages.” Discussing the prospects of including miners in the strike movement, Mr. Akimochkin noted that “miners are a category of people who can sleep for a long time, but then explode.” Alexey Baranovsky; Veronica Savchenko, Lviv

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