© ITAR-TASS/Alexei DruzhininUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko
Hundreds of protesters blocked one of Kiev's thoroughfares on Thursday demanding the resignation of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and urgent deployment of military hardware in the combat area in eastern Ukraine.
The protesters who gathered near the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's headquarters are also seeking the resignation of Minister Valery Geletei and commanders of the military operation in the southeast.
Several unarmed servicemen are guarding the headquarters.
A group of activists was rallying with similar demands near the presidential administration on Wednesday.
The tables are turned on the Kiev government, as it's glorious war is going badly. The reports are filtering in of heavy loses suffered. Lost in the shuffle is the story of MH17, which has gone strangely silent. The EU is limping about, having shot itself with Washington's sanctions.
Nobody made Yatsenyuk outlaw the Russian language, and nobody forced Petroshenko to declare war on the Ukraine's Russian ethnic population.