Radicals from the "Right sector" and the activists of Automaidan, was attacked in the center of Kiev on the miners after the demonstration of disagreement, told the head of the independent trade Union of miners of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets.
"Those who attacked were from fifteen to 20 people. Fifty percent was in civilian clothes, fifty percent in a protective form. Citizens increases, broad-shouldered, in the majority of Caucasian nationality. They said They were from the "Right sector*" and "Automaidan," said Volynets, quoted by RIA " Novosti ".
He said that this incident happened close to Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, when the miners were going home after the rally. According to Volynets, on the spot were the cameras and the attackers threatened once again to attack the miners, when They will travel from Kiev. Volynets said that was caused by the police and made a report About the incident. According to his statement, no one was hurt. Before the last working day of the week more than five hundred miners moved the column from the building of the Verkhovna Rada in the direction of the Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine. On Thursday, the part of the miners, with the dawning of the day picketing the Parliament building, moved To the building of the Ukrainian government, and blocked the street to traffic. On Thursday morning at the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Kiev gathered dozens of miners requiring the payment of wages and the reform of the coal industry. Later on the Grushevsky street in Kiev with the requirement to provide to Ukraine the European standard of living cut off about 4 thousand People. On Wednesday near the building of the Ukrainian Parliament also attracted about 1, 5 thousand Miners. They demanded a meeting with the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada in order to voice their demands regarding the situation in the coal industry and the non-payment of debt. Wednesday evening protesting miners blocked the traffic on the Central street of Kiev - Khreschatyk - the building of the Ministry of energy and coal industry.
* Organization, relative to which a court has adopted the legally effective conclusion Of destruction or prohibition of the activities on the grounds stipulated by the Federal law "On countering extremist activity"

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