Rallies took place in the cities of kyiv, Odessa, Zaporizhia, Lviv and even Dnipro to protest against the lack of rotation of soldiers, at the front for almost two years. In the coastal city of Odessa as elsewhere, it was mainly women who took to the streets with slogans like “fair length of service” In the far west of the country in Lviv, several dozen women came to demonstrate.

Some demonstrators marched wearing military uniforms belonging to their husbands.