The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office charged 18 present unrest near the building of Verkhovna Rada on August 31, said the press service of the Ministry.
"as part of the investigation of the criminal case initiated on the fact of events that took place on 31 August at the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 18 persons formulated accusations of committing crimes ", ? reported in the report of the Prosecutor General. One of the arrested accused under article 348 of the Ukrainian criminal code (attempt on life of the employee of law enforcement body) and part 3 of article 258 (terrorist act). The rest is charged with part 3 of article 345 (threat or violence concerning the employee of law enforcement body), article 293 (group violation of public order) and part 2. PT. 294 (mass riots). On Wednesday, the Ukrainian court is obliged to elect him a measure of restraint. Remember, the first day of the week, when the Verkhovna Rada with the ugliness adopted in the first reading the presidential draft amendments to the Constitution, the building of the Ukrainian Parliament riots occurred. Protesters twice attempted to storm the building, and security forces was thrown grenade combat. According to the summary data, in the end, the riots cost the lives of two soldiers of the National guardiamarina, 130 people have been injured, six of them are in a state of crisis. It was stated that 1st national guardsman, whose death was announced, was forcibly deprived of his life by a bullet, although a number of Ukrainian activists argued that it was touched by a shell. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expressed with reference to the people in connection with the vote in Parliament on changes to the Constitution of the country, provoked numerous riots outside Parliament. Poroshenko said that the events that took place outside Parliament, "the stab in the back" and " anti-Ukrainian campaign ".
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