More blockade

In Kyiv and a number of cities of Ukraine, protests were held against the detention of participants in the economic blockade of Donbass. It is reported by Ukrainian Pravda.

On Monday, at the Railway crossing near the Krivoy Torets station in the Donetsk region, police officers detained 46 blockade activists. The security forces seized eight units of various firearms, grenades and ammunition.

“The people who were there refused to provide documents, to give weapons, threatened the use of weapons, chainsaws. All these people were detained,” said Vyacheslav Abroskin, head of the police department in the Donetsk region. “Nine (detainees. - Ed.) They said that they took part in the anti -terrorist operation, but no one has yet provided documents from these people. Investigation actions will also be carried out with these people. on the fact of illegal blocking of railway tracks, capture of an electric locomotive. "

The deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from the Self -Help party demanded to free all the detainees and send from the resignation of the Minister of the Interior Arsen Avakov the head of the anti -terrorist center of the SBU Vitaly Malikov. The Self -help faction warns the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the anti -terrorist center of the SBU against further provocations of the power confrontation within the country. The Self -Help faction requires the liberation of the detainees and the resignation of the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the ATC ATC Malikov for the use of force against veterans, ”the faction said.

Late in the evening in Kyiv, several hundred people gathered in Independence Square, demanding the release of the detainees and stop trade with the territories of Donbass uncontrolled by Kyiv. The participants in the action went to the building of the Presidential Administration and diverged after a short rally.

Promotions in support of the blockade participants were held in Lutsk, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk. In Vinnitsa, protesters entered the building of the regional state administration and demanded that the region’s leadership officially support the blockade.

On Tuesday night, all the detainees were released .

Since the end of January , the headquarters of the blockade prevents trade with the DPR and LPR. Initially, the requirement of the action was the release of militants of prisoners of the military and activists. Then the requirements were put forward to the government of Ukraine. The headquarters insists on adopting the law "On the occupied territories", terminating the supply of coal from the DPR and the LPR and the complete rupture of any economic ties with them.

On March 4, activists announced the beginning of the trade blockade of Russia . At the Konotop station in the Sumy region, one of the main railways connecting Ukraine with a neighboring country was blocked. The participants of the action did not interfere with the movement of passenger trains.

On March 10, the coorganizer of the railway blockade, the former commander of the Donbass battalion Anatoly Vinogrodsky, said that activists give the Sberbank of Russia to the depositors for two weeks to pick up their funds. After this period, activists will make it impossible to work Sberbank in the country.

On Monday, in Kiev, activists of the National Corps party held a symbolic protest against the work of Sberbank of Russia . Several dozen people with flags gathered at the central office on Vladimir street. In a short time, they partially walked the entrance with concrete blocks, fastening them with a cement mortar.

“This is the central office of Sberbank of Russia, we will block it totally, we are laying the entrances with brick, and from this day it will not work. We will constantly expand all this story throughout Ukraine, to all their departments,” said the Verkhovna Rada deputy Andrei Biletsky, the leader of the National Corps and the founder of the Azov Regiment.