Along with Ukrainian flags, protesters also carried a number of posters and banners. Among them was a poster stating that Prime Minister "Yatsenyuk means poverty for Ukraine." Another read "Don't know how to work? Go work as a salesman for Roshen," referring to President Petro Poroshenko's chocolate empire. Another poster featured the phrase 'Mafia go AWAY'. One protester carried a caricature of a man in a barren apartment preparing to hang himself with a loop made out of a hot water pipe.
В центре Киеве прошло массовое шествие против повышения тарифов ЖКХ http://t.co/lJva0F6esF pic.twitter.com/snOLhNGx0E
— Украина без цензуры (@uaruinfo) 16 мая 2015
On May 1, cold and hot water rates grew by 71 percent, while a month earlier, on April 1, gas rates skyrocketed upwards by 285 percent. Ukrainians have been protesting the country's parliament in recent weeks over comments suggesting that the upward revision has yet to be completed.