SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2021

At 1130, events on the occasion of the Day of Protection of the Rights of the Ukrainian Community of Crimea will start. Organizer: Regional Council of Ukrainians of Crimea. Participants of the events will honor the memory of head of the Regional Ukrainian Council in Crimea in 1919-1920, Consul of the UPR in Yalta Pavlo Horsky and Crimeans – defenders of Ukraine, who died in 2014-2020 (gathering of participants at the entrance to the State Historical and Memorial Lukianivsky Reserve, 7 Dorohozhytska Street).

At 1400, in the Taras Shevchenko park, the action "Ukrainians of Crimea: Circle of Solidarity" (gathering near the monument to Taras Shevchenko) will start.

At 1200, at the Office of the President of Ukraine, on the eve of the meeting of the Presidents of Ukraine and the United States, an action-performance "The Life of the Kremlin Hostages is not a Toy" will start. Former political prisoners, together with their relatives and human rights activists, will demand active actions from the authorities to free Ukrainian political prisoners and hostages of the Kremlin. The organizers of the action: Center for Civil Liberties, Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin, Center for Human Rights ZMINA, Media Initiative for Human Rights, Crimean Human Rights Group, Platform for the Release of Political Prisoners (Bankova Street, 11). Contact person: (067) 445 95 43, [email protected].

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