Today in Lutsk, a press conference was held regarding the police repressions that have been taking place for several weeks now in Sumy and the region against students who are protesting by constitutional methods against the merger of three educational institutions into one, thereby putting at risk the foundations of the democratic system and the observance of the rights of Ukrainian citizens. \nSpeaking at the press conference, Pavlo Danyilchuk – a student of Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, a participant in the Sumy-Kyiv student march, Ihor Huz – head of the Volyn organization of the Youth Nationalist Congress, a representative of the public movement "Clean Ukraine," and Andriy Bokoch – a representative of the information and educational campaign "Pora," informed those present that recently the Sumy police have been taking measures that are more similar to punitive-repressive actions against students than to the fulfillment of their main task – the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens. \nThus, already twice the participants of the Sumy – Kyiv march, which is taking place as an act of students' disagreement with the decision to merge educational institutions and is a logical continuation of the tent city, have been detained by officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Both times with a gross violation of the law – the police officers did not identify themselves, used brute force (one of the students was hospitalized with internal bleeding), and the young people were not given the opportunity to defend themselves. \nPavlo Danyilchuk recounted that on the morning of August 6, representatives of law enforcement agencies in the number of about 100 people drove up to the march participants and without explanation began brutally loading them into buses. Pavlo himself had to sit in the Romny District Police Department for a day, after which a court hearing was held at which he was found guilty of committing resistance to law enforcement officers. Although it remains a mystery to him to this day: resistance to what? Nothing was explained to them, they did not identify themselves. \nThe most shocking thing for the students was the detention of People's Deputy of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, because he has immunity. So the question remains: how to instill respect for the law in young people, if those who are called to protect it, with the blessing of the executive branch, grossly violate it.