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Ukrainians rally in memory of Donbass dead
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January 21, 2015
Original URL: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Ukrainians_rally_in_memory_of_Donbass_dead



Thousands of Ukrainians in Kyiv took part on Sunday in marches in memory
of reported victims of Donetsk People's Republic militants in a tragedy
on January 13 near Volnovakha in Donetsk Oblast. On that day reportedly
thirteen people on a bus were killed and sixteen wounded when
separatists struck the bus with a Grad missile launcher near a Ukrainian
checkpoint.

The same marches also took place in other major Ukrainian cities,
including Odessa, Kharkiv, Dniepropetrovsk and Zaporizhia<!-- (1) --> as
well as some towns in Donetsk and Luhansk regions<!-- (2) --> under
Ukrainian control<!-- (3) -->. 

During the march in Kyiv President Poroshenko promised to return Donbass
to Ukraine<!-- (4) -->, while participants in Lutsk<!-- (5) --> and
Khmelnytsky<!-- (6) --> requested the Goverment to recognise Donetsk
People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic as terrorist
organisations officially.  Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko said, <!-- (7)
-->

The march ended with a public prayer for victims of terror<!-- (8)
--><!-- (9) -->. The Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Church Sviatoslav Shevchuk and the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’ -
Ukraine Filaret, as well as representatives of Ukrainian Orthodox
Church, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Clerical Board of
Ukraine's Muslims, Armenian Apostolic Church took part in this
prayer<!-- (9) -->.

== Gallery==
<gallery perrow=3 widths=300 heights=200>
File:Kyiv._Peace_march_18_january_2014_03.JPG|Panorama at European
square and Grushevsky street, Kyiv
File:Kyiv. Peace march 18 january 2014 05.JPG|Posters: "Putin - main
terrorist!", "Freedom for Nadia Savchenko!" (Grushevsky street, Kyiv)
File:Kyiv. Peace march 18 january 2014 06.JPG|Flowers for Michael
Zhisnewsky, one of the first Heavenly Hundred (Grushevsky street, Kyiv).
File:Kyiv. Peace march 18 january 2014 28.JPG|Posters: "Stop Russian
Aggerssion. Adolf Putin. Hands off Ukraine" (Institute street, Kyiv)
File:Kyiv. Peace march 18 january 2014 30.JPG|Posters: "Russia - sponsor
of terrorism" (Institute street, Kyiv)
File:Kyiv. Peace march 18 january 2014 20.JPG|Maidan Nezalezhnosti,
Kyiv. Poster sais: "Zolotonosha: Putin khuilo!

</gallery>

== Sister links ==

== Sources == 

*  https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/thousands-of-people-came-to-im-volnovaha-rally-377718.html
*  http://uazmi.org/article/216760509790
*  http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/18/7055431/
* <!-- (1) -->  http://www.hromadske.tv/society/u-zaporizhzhi-proishov-marsh-pamyati-zhertv-terori/
* <!-- (2) -->  http://ua.korrespondent.net/ukraine/3468014-sievierodonetsk-vyishov-na-marsh-myru
* <!-- (3) -->  http://ua.comments.ua/life/248811-zhiteli-donechchini-viyshli-na-marshi-miru.html
* <!-- (4) -->  http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/01/18/7055443/
* <!-- (5) -->  http://ua.112.ua/suspilstvo/u-lucku-uchasniki-marshu-miru-zvernulisya-do-prezidenta-ta-kabminu-z-prohannyam-vvesti-viyskoviy-stan-175299.html
* <!-- (6) --> http://ye.ua/news/news_18905.html
* <!-- (7) -->  http://kiev-ukr.segodnya.ua/kpeople/klichko-na-marshe-mira-vrag-boitsya-nas-tak-budem-silnymi-585051.html
* <!-- (8) -->  http://www.5.ua/ukrayina/na-maidani-rozpochinayetsya-moleben-za-jertvami-terory-67665.html
* <!-- (9) -->  http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/publish/article?art_id=247876990



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