
The special forces from the Berkut unit, armed with machine guns, seized servers from the headquarters of the Opposition Party "Fatherland" on Turovskaya Street in Kyiv. This was reported by "Ukrainian Pravda" with reference to an eyewitness of events. The staff of the headquarters was laid on the floor while the search was and broke the doors of the server room.
After the visit of the security forces, the party leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk went to the headquarters. He said: "If we clean the tents, we will put new ones, they will clean the cordons of people - we will put new ones, if they hope to intimidate people - then they will not be able to."
The capture of the party’s headquarters previously announced the publication by the deputy from the Fatherland Ruslan Lukyanchuk. It is known that no one was released from the headquarters, but several employees still managed to escape. Three machine gunners were on duty in front of the entrance, and traffic police posts were exhibited at the entrances to the building.
The press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Kyiv, however, denied a message about the seizure of the party headquarters. "The Kiev police and" Golden Eagle "do not carry out any actions on Turovskaya Street,” the Silovik statement reports to RIA Novosti.
Meanwhile, the internal troops continue to push the protesters from the roadway of blocked streets in the city center and disassemble the barricades. According to the head of the press service of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Olga Bilyk, "there were no conflicts yet."
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Shortly before the evening , the security forces began the assault on the outskirts of the Euromaidan . At the same time, the leader of the "Fatherland" Arseniy Yatsenyuk reported that the demonstrators were beaten.
The head of the Freedom Nationalist Party Oleg Tyagnibok reported that employees of the Russian FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which had a military weapon, arrived in Ukraine. “It is still unknown what kind of special forces these are,” the politician noted. The leader of Freedom added that military weapons are also armed with police officers from the stations and from airports. “This information has already been verified,” he emphasized.
Previously, the security forces completely blocked the Independence Square . At the House of Trade Unions, Euromaidan participants lined up to protect the demonstration. Colonel of internal troops Sergey Sviridenko stated that the security forces arrived, just to change their colleagues who served in the Euro -Maidan in the last days. Later, the first deputy head of the headquarters of the internal troops, Alexander Oleshchenko, assured that the police did not give the assignment to disperse the Euromaidan, and the internal troops were pulled to the Square only to protect public order.