Poltava, March 25 (Navigator, Olga Nikolaeva) - Poltava police officers on Tuesday morning detained several Right Sector activists for carrying firearms.
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This was reported by the site "poltava" with reference to the head of the press service of the regional police Yuri Sulaev.
According to him, the activists were armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and pistols.
At the same time, information about the detention is confirmed by a message in the “Right Sector” group on Facebook.
“The Poltava center of the Right Sector held a picket today at the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs... The picketing was actually disrupted by the Organized Crime Control Department, which detained the head of the political wing “Right Sector - East” Ilya Kiva, the coordinator of the “Right Sector” of Poltava region Ivan Balatsky, the coordinator of the “Right Sector” of Poltava Maxim Levchuk and their three deputies. They are trying to accuse our activists of illegal possession of weapons; however, no weapons have been confiscated from them,” wrote the Poltava radicals.