On Sunday, January 10, about fifty activists in Kiev on Maidan Nezalezhnosti organized a chain of solidarity with Belarusians who are going to protest actions in Minsk and other Belarusian cities..

According to Ukrinform, people with white-red-white flags lined up in the center of the Ukrainian capital along Khreshchatyk Street from the side of the Main Post Office.

As one of the participants in the action, a citizen of Belarus Yuri Shchuchko, said that every Sunday in Kiev, similar actions of solidarity are held, when the participants march to the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in Ukraine, however, given the strengthening of the quarantine by the Ukrainian government, now they decided to build a "

" But since now is lockdown, we decided to simply organize a chain of solidarity in all the parameters that Ukrainian legislation sets for events: you see, everyone is standing 1.5 meters away, wearing masks, "

The activist stressed that such actions are held to "

Shchuchko himself said that he took part in protests in Belarus in the summer, but was detained. According to him, several administrative and criminal cases were opened against him, so at the end of August he arrived in Ukraine and now lives here..