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Update: More than 5,000 attend Sofiyivska Square Unity Day rally (Photos)

By Staff reports.
A lady holds a 1990 poster calling on people to form a human chain between the western Ukrainian city of Lviv and the nation's capital Kyiv.
Photo by (Peter Byrne)

Kyiv Post reporter Peter Byrne attended the Unity Day rally on Sofiyivska Square where more than 5,000 people gathered to commemorate when western and eastern Ukraine unified to form a short-lived nation-state on Jan. 22, 1919.

Civic activist Oleksandr Danyliuk. (Peter Byrne)

Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. (Peter Byrne)

Protesters at the Unity Day rally in Sofiyivska Square. (Peter Byrne).

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