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Several hundred protesters and opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili are marching down the streets of the Ukrainian capital to the parliament to demand the president’s resignation.
The former president of Georgia, who has emerged as an anti-corruption campaigner in Ukraine, earlier broke free from custody several hours after he was detained. Hundreds of protesters had been blocking the police van with Saakashvili inside during an hours-long standoff with police.
Saakashvili told his supporters that he would “lay down his life for the freedom of Ukraine” and called on the protesters to follow him to the parliament. He also called on Ukrainians to rally on Kiev’s main square, the epicenter of the 2013-2014 protests, to demand the resignation of President Petro Poroshenko.
Saakashvili was wearing a flag with Ukraine’s yellow and blue colors around his neck as he marched in central Kiev surrounded by supporters.
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