More than 10,000 people filled the Czech capital’s central Wenceslas Square on Friday

More than 10,000 people filled the Czech capital’s central Wenceslas Square on Friday, with demonstrators calling for the government to resign as consumers face sharply rising prices, Qazet.az report according to TheGuardian.

Dubbed Czech Republic First, the protest was the third of its kind organised by a group calling for the nation’s exit from NATO and renewed ties with Moscow.

Nationalist activists have blasted the EU’s sanctions against Moscow as the source of the region’s turmoil, and called for talks with the Kremlin to secure fresh supplies of cheaper natural gas.

On social media, organisers attacked the government’s support for some 400,000 Ukrainian refugees in the country and called on authorities to prevent them from permanently settling in the Czech Republic.

The Interior Ministry described a similar protest that drew 70,000 in September as promoting “pro-Kremlin propagandist narratives.”