National guardsman killed, 90 injured in violent clashes outside parliament

A national guardsman was killed and 90 of his colleagues and police officers were injured when right-wing protests in Ukraine turned violent on Monday. He died when splinters from a grenade went through his heart during the clashes outside parliament in Kiev. At least four of the officers were said to have been seriously hurt – with wounds to their eyes, stomach, neck and legs – when grenades were thrown. Police were pelted with fire crackers and petrol bombs and several were knocked off their feet by one grenade blast, leaving pools of blood on the street.

Apart from using grenades, the provocateurs were using firearms, fired secretly

Ukraine internal ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko

The attack happened during clashes between police and about 200 nationalist protesters who were stopped by police using teargas from storming parliament. MPs had just voted in a rowdy session to approve more powers in areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, which are under control of pro-Russian rebels. Members of far-right Ukrainian Svoboda party were behind the grenade attack, a minister said. Up to 30 demonstrators, including the one who threw the grenade had been arrested.

Investigation and punishment are inevitable. Around 30 people are detained. There will be more. The person who threw the grenade has been caught, grenades have been seized, including an F1 maximum destruction grenade

Internal minister Arsen Avakov

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