KYIV – Despite continuing reassurances from the Zelenskyy administration that it will not yield on fundamental issues concerning Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, protests against what many see as Kyiv’s “capitulation” before Russia by accepting the controversial “Steinmeier formula” have intensified and spread.
On October 6 more than 10,000 people demonstrated on Kyiv’s Maidan, making it the largest public protest since the Revolution of Dignity. Protests were also held in numerous cities all across the country. Several city and oblast councils in both western and eastern Ukraine have come out against the Steinmeier formula.