According to the publication, several thousand people gathered on the Maidan near the stage with the inscription "Resistance movements of surrender."

Earlier, the Sumy City Council opposed the signing by Ukraine of the Steinmeier formula, which determines the entry into force of the law on the special status of Donbass.

Also, in the party of the ex-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, they demanded that the National Security and Defense Council be convened because of Steinmeier’s formula.

On October 1, the participants in the contact group for a settlement in eastern Ukraine at a meeting in Minsk agreed on the Steinmeier formula for its implementation in Ukrainian legislation.

Poroshenko said that this mechanism was "invented in the Kremlin" and "protects Russian interests."