Posted on 08/14/2021 2:37:41 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Police clashed Saturday when Nationalist protesters near the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to break through the police cordon.
Reuters television footage from the scene showed Ukrainian police members and protesters spraying tear gas on each other. While police officers barely counterattacked, protesters attacked with long sticks and threw car tires and stones.
Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy said eight police officers were injured during the clash and a criminal investigation was initiated. He wrote on Facebook that the clash began when police tried to search for protesters about the approach to Cheong Wa Dae, but they resisted.
“The Constitution guarantees the right to peaceful protests. Anyone who underwent a basic check would have been allowed to enter the square in front of Cheong Wa Dae,” he said.
The right-wing national corps organized a rally to protest a plan known as the Steinmeier ceremony, which would provide a special position in the Donbas region, which is controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
The group said violence was triggered when police officers blocked access to the building, resulting in injuries to some protesters.
“Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy said eight police officers were injured during the clash and a criminal investigation was initiated. He wrote on Facebook that the clash began when police tried to search for protesters about the approach to Cheong Wa Dae, but they resisted.”
There goes his facebook account.
wy69
Slow news day for Texas News Today.
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Soviet Russification is never going to go down well in Kiev.
They’ve been there done that.
No American news today?
If your posts are out of our country, please note where whatever happened or is happening.
I posted a few today.
If your posts are out of our country, please note where whatever happened or is happening.
I could have put 'Ukraine' in all caps, but then someone that would have ruined someone's day.
Maybe it was these guys.
Hundreds march in Ukraine in annual tribute to Nazi collaborator
Stepan Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during the Second World War, killed thousands of Jews and Poles
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-march-in-ukraine-in-annual-tribute-to-nazi-collaborator/
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