Nationalists who demanded recognition of the UPA defeated the Verkhovna Rada (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Kyiv, October 14 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – A scuffle with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and broken glass in the building of the Verkhovna Rada ended today the action of nationalists in Kyiv, timed to honor the UPA, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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However, in the morning nothing foreshadowed such a radical development of events. Svoboda activists were the first to come from Maidan Nezalezhnosti to the Rada. The most radical actions on their part were perhaps the traditional chants of nationalists “Communyaku na gilyaku” and “Moskalyaku na gilyaku.”
The situation began to escalate when representatives of a number of other organizations approached parliament, in particular, the Social Nationalist Assembly, whose activists formed the basis of the volunteer battalion (and now regiment) of the Azov Ministry of Internal Affairs (among the attackers was the head of the Kyiv SNA Igor Krivoruchko, commander of the Azov company). By this time, in the session hall the question of including a document on recognition of the OUN-UPA at the state level was put to a vote.
The speaker put the question to a vote several times, but he never got the required number of votes. During one of these inconclusive votes, firecrackers and smoke bombs, then sticks and bricks, were thrown at the Ministry of Internal Affairs workers standing in a cordon.
As a result, it came to a short but fierce brawl, during which individual radicals managed to break through directly to the parliament building, where they were localized and neutralized. At the same time, the radicals continued to throw stones, sabers and firecrackers at the law enforcement officers standing in the cordon.
“We are for recognition of the OUN-UPA, but now we see a provocation by the Kremlin, which is interested in such a development of events,” Zoryan Shkiryak, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, commented on the situation to PolitNavigator.
Then they started firing metal balls from slingshots at the windows of the sidelines of the Verkhovna Rada on the third floor, from where journalists were filming what was happening.
Both police officers and journalists were injured during the clashes.
However, the confrontation ended in nothing: the speaker was forced to close the session, and the protesters dispersed.
It is noteworthy that the Svoboda and Right Sector parties have already stated that they have nothing to do with organizing the riots.
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