Mourning music was heard on Maidan (Independence Square). Priests held religious services for the dead. There were no opposition leaders. Arseny Yatsenyuk, Vitaly Klitschko and Oleg Tyagnibok and other politicians were not seen there. Many people came with children. "Let them know what cost is paid for freedom," a woman, who had brought her seven-year-old son to the site, told an Itar-Tass correspondent. Many young people came.
People were already in a peaceful mood. Stores and cafes opened at Kreschatik Street after almost three months of no working. However, protesters did not intend to leave the square. A parliament member, the self-defence leader and the commandant, Andrei Paruby, said he would not allow anybody to remove the barricades. "Removal of the barricades is out of the question, since there are icons of self defence members who died defending Maidan," he stated. He did not say when opposition activists would leave. "There is no date for a revolution and Maidan," he said.
