Police seized knives, bats and metal pipes have arrested 14 active participants of shares for the federalization of Ukraine and for the integrity of the country, said on the first day of the week at a press conference the head of the Kharkiv city Department of militia Alexey Boyko.

on Sunday in Kharkiv in parallel passed two shares: in support of integrity of Ukraine and for federalization, where, according to the police, was attended by over 1000 people. The public order was ensured by almost 300 policemen. According to information of law-enforcers, in the evening there was a clash between the protesters, but the police managed to localize the conflict. Caught 30 participants of the fight from both sides.

" in 14 protesters were found prohibited by the legislative act of objects like knives, bats, metal pipes. On the facts of their withdrawal in the journal of the uniform accounting offences made appropriate entries. After explanations and checks all the detained were released ", - quotes the message Boyko press service of the main Directorate of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv region.

According to the chief of city Department of militia detained are residents of Kharkiv in the age of from 18 till 55 years, some of them are first judged. The Ministry stressed that the situation is under full control of the police organization.

Kharkiv city Council placed the responsibility for the clashes between the participants of the 2-Sunday shares for radicals " euromayday " and organizers of the rallies.

last Friday the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko gave the order to stop the fire for a week of all security units involved in special operations in the East of Ukraine. He also showed the peaceful settlement plan. Anyway, the fighting continues.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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