High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ukraine without Kuchma! or UBK was a mass protest campaign that took place in Ukraine in 2000?2001. It was organized by the political opposition, influenced by the infamous Cassette Scandal and aimed mainly to demand the resignation of President Leonid Kuchma. The first and barely noticed action of the campaign took place on 15 December 2000 on Maydan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), the main plaza of Kiev (Kyiv), the Ukrainian capital. The protesters sought Kuchma's stepping down and proper investigations of the disappearance of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.