Police were dispatched to protect government buildings, but the protest ended peacefullyДЇollowing todayвЂ™s (Saturday) protest, pensioners and vulnerable groups have been offered a cash handout, and there a plans to cut income tax for more than half of all private and government sector employees. Under the measures, fuel suppliers margins will be curtailed while retail prices will be set daily, with pumps that charge higher prices set to be shut down.ДЄ body made up of government officials and business leaders made the decision to lower prices for the next three days, but protesters are determined to carry on with daily demonstrations, saying the governmentвЂ™s action plan to reduce prices fails to go far enough. Police were dispatched to protect government buildings, but the protest ended peacefully with a small group of demonstrators taken to the police station to seek the release of dozens of others arrested at previous demonstrations.Дemonstrators have been demanding that the government steps in to counter the price increases.Д®arlier this week, the Albanian government imposed price controls on fuel and urged citizens to use their cars less following a 50 per cent increase in fuel prices. People from across the country gathered on the main Skanderbeg Square before marching in front of Prime Minister Edi RamaвЂ™s office with banners and shouting antigovernment slogans in the fourth protest there this week. вЂI cannot hate them because our bonds have lasted for centuries.вЂ™Д®lsewhere, thousands of Albanians took to the streets of the capital Tirana to protest against price increases on fuel and food which authorities blame on the conflict in Ukraine. вЂRussians are under a dictatorship and cannot understand why they came to destroy our cities and kill our children,вЂ™ said Lesia Mykhailenko, who was born in Donetsk and now works in Florence. Ukraine and Western allies have dubbed the invasion a pretext for a war of choice which has raised fears of wider conflict in Europe.ДЄ number of Ukrainian women joined the crowds in Florence wearing flower crowns as a symbol of peace. The crowds waved blue and yellow flags in Piazza Santa Croce as church bells tolled 17 times вЂ“ one for each day since Russia invaded Ukraine in what Moscow calls a вЂspecial operationвЂ™В to disarm and вЂdenazifyвЂ™ Ukraine.

In a speech broadcast to dozens of European cities taking part in a day of protests, President Zelenskiy said 79 children had been killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the war and called for more sanctions against Moscow and a no-fly zone.

The crowds waved blue and yellow flags in Piazza Santa Croce as church bells tolled 17 timesВ вЂ“ one for each day since Russia invaded UkraineДЇlorence has been twinned with UkraineвЂ™s capital since the 1960s, when it sent aid to the Tuscan city to help it recover from a devastating flood.

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