KIEV, Aug. 13 – One million people will take to the streets across Ukraine in October in a march against President Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of a recent protest march against police brutality said Tuesday.

Vasyl Liubarets, who was jailed for 10 days for organizing the anti-police protest last month, said the new march will sweep Ukraine and will turn into a “permanent” action.

“The march will begin on Oct. 2 at 10 a.m. simultaneously throughout Ukraine,” Liubarets said at a press conference.

He said the march will involve at least 500,000 of active protesters throughout Ukraine but will probably number one million if other supporters, such as those providing food, are taken into account.

The plan is the biggest planned protest action yet to be aimed against Yanukovych, who is expected to seek re-election to the second 5-year term in office in March 2015.

The scale of the planned protest suggests that organizers will seek to try to trigger an action that may be reminiscent to the Orange Revolution, a popular uprising against election fraud, in 2004.

The uprising prevented Yanukovych, then the prime minister, from securing the victory at the presidential vote in December 2004 after court ruled his campaign had resorted to massive vote rigging and fraud.

Yanukovych, who defeated then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at a fair election in February 2010, has since been showing fears of massive protests in Ukraine.

Police would repeatedly deploy forces that overwhelm protester, while Yanukovych’s security details has been taking extreme precautions – up to shutting traffic in Kiev for hours - to avoid the president’s rendezvous with people.

Liubarets said the protest, known as the Vradiyivka March, will culminate on October 10 at rally in downtown Kiev that will turn into a permanent protest demanding resignation of Yanukovych.

"On this day, the protest becomes perpetual spreading to towns and villages of Ukraine,” Liubarets said. He said at least 100,000 protesters are expected in Kiev.

Yanukovych may be limited in using brutal force against demonstrators ahead of a summit in Vilnius between the European Union and Ukraine.

The parties are preparing to sign a political association and free trade agreement unless Ukraine fails to show progress with democracy and the rule of law.

Liubarets was last month jailed for 10 days for organizing the previous march that was aimed against police brutality.

The march, which culminated into a rally in downtown Kiev, demanded resignation of Internal Affairs Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko channeling popular anger after two police officers had gang raped and tried to kill a young woman in Vradiyivka, the Mykolayiv region.

The rally of 150 protesters was brutally dispersed by riot police at about midnight July 17 after they had started setting up a tent camp in downtown Kiev, apparently preparing for a long-term protest.

The latest protests began as a spontaneous reaction earlier this month to police brutality and impunity after police officers involvement in the gang rape and attempted murder.

Police and other authorities, such prosecutor and even doctors at state hospital, have first tried to cover up the case, but were later forced to arrest the suspects following a public outrage that had resulted in storming of a local police station by angry villagers.

Zakharchenko, who planned to go on vacation on July 15, was forced to change his plans and to stay in Kiev throughout the summer amid fears the protests would spread.

Zakharchenko said the protest has become “too much politicized” and is used by opposition parties in order to blame the government and the ruling party. (tl/ez)