At the reporting and election conference of the Volyn regional organization of the "Batkivshchyna" party, security guards did not let journalists in. Who issued such a ban could not be found out. Neither the head of the regional organization Mykola Potapchuk nor the people's deputy Yevhen Kyryllchuk agreed to take such responsibility upon themselves. This was reported by the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.
The obvious split in the ranks of Volyn fellow party members into "Potapchukites" and "Kyryllchukites" brought more chaos than discipline. For more than two hours in the premises of the trade union hotel in Lutsk, squabbles and verbal confrontations continued over who "loves Yulia Tymoshenko the most."
Volyn television companies, having never waited for order, left the conference that had not yet begun.