Civil servants and employees of the State Department of Ecology and Natural Resources in the Volyn region supported the decision of the extraordinary session of the Volyn Regional Council of November 23 and the appeal of the State Department of Eco-Resources of the Vinnytsia region and "regarded the falsification of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections as a state coup." An open letter was sent to the Minister of Environmental Protection of Ukraine S. Polyakov, the Volyn Regional State Administration and the State Departments in the regions. As reported by the first deputy head of the state department, deputy head of the regional organization of the Ukrainian People's Party Volodymyr Kindrat, 87 signatures have already been collected, including the signatures of four deputy heads of the department. The collection of signatures continues.