Police received the first health damage during the riots at the building of the Verkhovna Rada of stun and gas grenades, and not from military weapons, said chief of the National guard of Ukraine Mykola Balan.

The Verkhovna Rada on the proposal of the President Petro Poroshenko accepted on the first day of the week in the first reading the draft changes to the Constitution in some countries decentralization. The adoption of the document provoked protests from the three parliamentary factions, as well as part of the public active participants. After the vote at the building Happy were initiated clashes: protesters used water bottles, sticks and smoke bombs. In the end, 3 fighters of the national guard have lost their lives, more than 150 people were injured health, 35 persons till now remain in hospitals.

Balan said at a press conference on Wednesday that against law enforcement officers guarding the Ukrainian Parliament, the weapon was used, similar to that used terrorist groups, not the Soldiers.

"There were gas explosive device. Afterward were used explosive device, explosive packages with conventional terrorist stuffing. Do not military. It is used in the majority of citizens who want to commit a terrorist act, who want noise, PR, atrocities. It was the toppings - nuts, bolts, trim pieces ", - quotes the commander of the national guard under Ukrainian Agency UNN.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has been charged in the incident of unrest the party " Freedom ". 3 dead soldiers of the national guard Igor Debrina, Alexander and Dmitry Kostin Slastnikov - power was posthumously awarded the order "for courage" III degree.

sections: Politics