BARRACADES APPEAR IN THE STREETS OF KIEV

Please see "To the Barracades" in the Photo Album (the link is in the side bar). It is a photo of one of the three barricades in central Kiev that I saw this morning. The barricade in the photograph is along the route taken by the opposition protestors up Hrushevskogo Street on the way past the Verhovna Rada Ukrayiny (Supreme Council of Ukraine or Parliament.) Many of the protestors pictured here are from Ternopil Oblast in Western Ukraine, as well as from Kiev. Besides the “manned” barricades, some government buildings were being obstructed by buses. Also, the Rada was blocked by opposition supporters of Yushchenko which covered both sidewalks and the street with a density equal to the Metro at the peak of rush hour.