KYIV. Oct 14 (Interfax) - A march organized by the veteran and nationalist forces under the slogan "No Capitulation" has begun in central Kyiv on Monday evening, an Interfax correspondent reported.
About 5,000 people are taking part in the march. Its participants are holding Ukrainian flags and banners of veteran organizations. It was agreed beforehand that no political symbols were allowed at the event. The majority of the participants in the march are wearing camos.
Law enforcement officers are following the march. The procession's route starts from the park and goes along Shevchenko Boulevard and Khreshchatyk Street towards the Independence Square, where the assembly is to take place, and then, according to the organizers of the event, the participants would move to the government quarter to hold "a certain performance" there.
The participants in the march demand that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ban the introduction of a special status for the Donbas territories outside Kyiv's control and any other territory of Ukraine, prohibit the amnesty for Donbas militiamen, ban the withdrawal of the Ukrainian troops from the separation line in Donbas, ban the forming of any non-government armed formations, in particular, "the people's militias" in the territory outside Kyiv's control and ban any elections there until Ukraine regains full control along the entire border with the Russian Federation, withdraw from the Minsk format and initiate a Budapest format of negotiations.