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Poroshenko Calls Violent Clashes in Kiev 'Stab in the Back'
Poroshenko Calls Violent Clashes in Kiev 'Stab in the Back'
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Earlier Monday, clashes took place outside the Ukraine's parliament building shortly after the Verkovna Rada had approved proposed constitutional amendments on... 31.08.2015, Sputnik International
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Poroshenko Calls Violent Clashes in Kiev 'Stab in the Back'
17:09 GMT 31.08.2015 (Updated: 19:38 GMT 31.08.2015) Earlier Monday, clashes took place outside the Ukraine's parliament building shortly after the Verkovna Rada had approved proposed constitutional amendments on decentralization in the first reading.
KIEV (Sputnik) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko described Monday riots in the country's capital Kiev as an anti-Ukrainian action whose perpetrators must held responsible.
"It was a stab in the back. How else can you describe the events after vote in Verkhovna Rada?" Poroshenko said in a televised statement. "It was an anti-Ukrainian action whose organizers…must be punished severely," Poroshenko stressed.
31 August 2015, 10:27 GMT
About 100 were injured and a law enforcer was killed in the clashes as a grenade had exploded near the Ukraine's parliament.
According to Ukrainian Internal Minister Arsen Avakov, more than 30 were detained following the riots, including the person who threw a grenade.
The Interior Ministry said that radical Svoboda party was to blame for the violence.
