DHAKA: Ukrainian opposition has called for a new round of rallies called ‘veche’, or a popular assembly, that is expected to draw pro-EU integration masses to the heart of the Ukrainian capital in Independence Square.

The protest, which will be the third event of its kind over the past 17 days, is due on Sunday noon (10 am GMT). It is expected to attract people mostly from the country’s Europe-oriented western reaches.

Arseny Yatsenyuk, leader of the Tymoshenko-founded Batkyvshchina Party, said the rally would be ‘the third round of Ukrainians’ fight for their rights’.

UDAR party’s chief and reigning boxing champion Vitali Klitschko has called on the supporters of the EU association accord to come to the veche, saying ‘at least a million of us should come’.

He urged those who couldn’t come to Kiev as soon as possible to take to the streets of their native cities and ‘demonstrate their intent to live in a common European country, which is Ukraine’.

BDST: 1348 HRS, DEC 08, 2013