KYIV. March 11 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian opposition will start holding people's assemblies next week and incite the people to oppose the authorities, says Arseny Yatsenyuk, the leader of the Batkivshchyna parliamentary faction.
"We are announcing people's assemblies and a popular uprising against this regime today near Taras Shevchenko," Batkivshchyna quoted Yatsenyuk as saying at an opposition rally near a monument to the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in the center of Kyiv on Saturday
"We as opposition have decided to start campaigning among the masses. We should ask you to rise. We will begin people's assemblies next week to raise the people and say the only thing to them: 'Nobody will ever conquer us. We are strong and are heading for victory'," he said.
There can be no political or economic victory without the people's support, Yatsenyuk said. "The people want to hear our word and feel that there are those who will fight for their rights. And we are ready to sacrifice anything so that each citizen in this country knows: he governs here and he has a right to the government rather than the government has a right to a Ukrainian citizen. This is what we are going to tell the people so that they support, above all, themselves, their country, their family and their future," Yatsenyuk said.