The Right Sector party will initiate an all-Ukrainian referendum to ask the nation whether it trusts the authorities, whether it sees fit to blockade the territories in the eastern part of the country not controlled by Kyiv, and whether volunteer battalions should be legalized, Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh said.

"These are the questions that should be put to the referendum: first, no confidence in the authorities, second, we will demand that the war […] be called a war rather than an ATO [antiterrorist operation], which is exactly what our Ukrainian people demand. Third, we will demand that the occupied territories be blockaded absolutely. Fourth, we will ask the people to support the legalization of volunteer units," Yarosh said at Right Sector's rally in central Kyiv on Tuesday evening.

Right Sector will start setting up referendum campaign stations in all district and regional centers on Wednesday, July 22, he said.

Yarosh also said the organization will change its definition. "We decided today [at a congress] that, considering that we are starting a new phase in our revolutionary struggle, the military-political movement Right Sector be renamed the national liberation movement Right Sector," he said.

The rally organized by Right Sector on Independence Square [Maidan Nezalezhnosti] in the center of Kyiv on Tuesday gathered several thousand people. The gathering lasted for about two hours, and, following Yarosh's speech, people started to disperse.

There were not too many law enforcement officials at the venue of the rally. At the same time, bomb disposal experts examined the area around the Independence monument and adjacent streets for the presence of explosive devices several hours before the event.

The rally passed without incident.