Advisor to the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Zorian Shkiryak said on Tuesday That 18 people remain detained after the riots at the building of the Verkhovna Rada in Kiev, another 13 people released.
"Recent data on yesterday's events in Parliament, - Shkiryak wrote on Facebook.- Yesterday, the police on suspicion of involvement in illegal, criminal actions against the country were caught 31 people. During the previous evening and night, the investigating Authorities of the Ministry of interior conducted all appropriate procedural steps. Now, under article 208 of the criminal procedure code of Ukraine caught 18 people. Of them two men of police battalion " Sich ", one Of which is suspected in the use of military explosive device against law enforcement officers "" as for the other 13 people who were brought to Goloseevskiy and the Pechersky district police that information Until not confirmed and they were released. Investigative team continues to work hard and find out all the details and circumstances of yesterday's anti-government lawlessness at the Verkhovna Rada. Analyzed and collected all the necessary materials, " he added. According to Shkiriak, the killing of a national guard soldier and injured about 130 law enforcement officers will not go unpunished." Law enforcement will act tough and uncompromising!" he said. Before that the commander of a battalion of patrol service of the interior Ministry of Ukraine "Sich" Alexander Pisarenko confirmed That one Of his soldiers detained on suspicion of detonation of an explosive device outside the Verkhovna Rada. According to Pisarenko, the battalion members were forbidden to take weapons From the zone of " special operations ", for this reason, the commander said That he did not know where the fighter took the grenade. However, reporters noticed a few grenades on the location of the battalion in mezhigorye. In addition, said Pisarenko, all members of the battalion are non-partisan, As included in the unit of the interior Ministry. Thus, according to correspondents on the location of creation there is the symbolism of " Freedom ".
As reported by Ukrainian media, " the police arrested the man who is suspected of, threw a grenade at police. It Gumenyuk Igor Vladimirovich. If he himself had another one just like the grenade and the pin from the one used. He called himself the evening, the fighter of a battalion " Sich ". In interview to the newspaper's former rival Petro Poroshenko at the presidential elections, the people's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Mykhailo Dobkin (Opposition bloc) said, "Humeniuk ? he is the current employee of special forces of the interior Ministry" s & m "! He must have a permit to carry weapons and everything else That is connected with the service in the forces ". The head of the international Department of the state Duma Alexei Pushkov after the events of the Verkhovna Rada called Ukraine " the eternal country of the Maidan "." in the West much admired " vibrating Ukrainian democracy." Today, its vibration is again led to the death of people. The eternal country of the Maidan ", - he said. On the first day of the week the Verkhovna Rada with the ugliness adopted in the first reading the presidential draft amendments to the Constitution. While at the building Happy riots occurred, in the end, which 1 citizen died and 140 were injured. Protesters twice attempted to storm Parliament. Similarly, in the security forces, a grenade was thrown. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called the events of the day under the walls of the Verkhovna Rada, "the stab in the back" and " anti-Ukrainian campaign ". As reported by the print edition opinion, the riots in Kiev, despite the spilled blood will not be the beginning of a new Maidan. However, the rules he had already formed.

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