Ukrainian police have confirmed that a police officer was hurt in the process of unrest in Kharkov.

first Ukrainian media said that One policeman suffered as a result of clashes near the building of Kharkiv city Council.

"One policeman was injured mild. Urgent medical aid was rendered to him on the spot, " said head of public relations Department of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv oblast Oksana Kalmykova in explanation of the Last news .

numerous actions in Kharkov commenced on Wednesday morning, when the activists gathered outside home of ex-Governor of Kharkiv region, Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Mikhail Dobkin in Kharkiv, the protesters were dressed in camouflage, he covered faces with balaclavas and were holding flags with the symbols of the battalion " Azov ". Then the radicals in balaclavas, in an amount of about 200 people gathered under the building of city Council of Kharkiv to protest against the possibility of the appointment to senior positions in the Kharkov region Dobkin or mayor Gennady Kernes, who is planning to participate in the forthcoming elections of the mayor of Kharkiv.

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