Common Cause Plans Seizure of the Cabinet of Ministers, Parliament, and the Presidential Administration

Activists of the public movement Common Cause, who occupied on the night of Friday, 24 January, the building of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, plan further to seize the Cabinet of Ministers, the Verkhovna Rada, and the Presidential Administration.

This is reported by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, with reference to the coordinator of the public movement, Oleksandr Danylyuk.

"The beginning of the Ukrainian offensive has occurred, which we have long awaited. About which, we hoped, our parliamentary opposition would announce. Since it (the opposition — editor) is not ready to announce it, we began occupying the buildings of central state authorities. In order to, in fact, seize all ministries, agencies, the Cabinet, the Verkhovna Rada, and the Presidential Administration, making the further functioning of these bodies impossible. Because we know that today power is not only usurped by Viktor Yanukovych, but is also used against national interests, against the interests of citizens. Today the regime has come to the point of killing people," said Danylyuk.

Recall that protesters on the night of Friday occupied the building of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, located on Khreshchatyk in Kyiv.

Also in several regions, mainly in Western Ukraine, in the last two days local residents have begun to massively seize the buildings of regional state administrations. Already seized are the Lviv, Ternopil, Volyn, Rivne, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi, and Ivano-Frankivsk regional state administrations. In several regions administrative buildings are being blockaded by protesters.

Earlier in the capital, protesters seized the Kyiv City State Administration building and the House of Trade Unions.

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