Victims of provocateurs, acting under the Ukrainian Parliament on August 31, had become elected officials who were at the plenary meeting of the Rada, said the Secretary of the Council of national security and defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov.
"The terrorists planned under the protection of smoke screens to apply 7 live grenades. The first grenade had torn in the ranks of the national guard and provoke law enforcement officers on the use of firearms ", - has said the NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov in the Ukrainian TV channel " 24TV ".
Turchynov said that national guardsmen under the instruction had the right to use weapons, but did not do so because of the exposure and awareness of their own responsibility." Six other grenades were obliged to fly into the Windows of Parliament. The elected officials did not understand that Also had become the victims of these terrible events ", ? Turchynov said. NSDC Secretary has noticed that the consequence will call all the organizers of this provocation. On Tuesday, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has promised that in the near future the consequence will present the Details of the riots at the building of the Verkhovna Rada on August 31. Riots at Rada on August 31 were initiated after the Deputies in the first reading adopted amendments to the Constitution in terms of decentralization, despite a rally at the walls Happy and blocked the Presidium. Protesters twice attempted to storm Parliament. Similarly, in the security forces, a grenade was thrown. According to the summary data, in the end, the riots cost the lives of three and injured over 140 people. 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 Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said that an explosive device at police at the walls of Happy citizens threw in t-shirts of the party "Freedom" Oleg Tyahnybok. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the events that took place outside Parliament, "the stab in the back" and " anti-Ukrainian campaign ". 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 ".

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