Pro -Russian rally in Donetsk: people in masks broke into the regional administration

In Donetsk, the regional center in the east of Ukraine, the participants in the next pro -Russian rally captured the building of the regional state administration, cutting off the state flag and hooking over the building of the Russian flag. Local media reports that the assault on the buildings was carried out by "athletes" in masks and balaclavas who broke through a police cordon. The capturing the building announced the intention to convene the "people's congress" of the deputies and take power. In Lugansk, the center of another region on the border with Russia, the protesters captured the building of the security service. In Kharkov, there was a serious fight between pro -Russian activists and supporters of Euromaidan. Next, pro -Russian activists captured the building of the regional state administration of Kharkov and hoisted the Russian flag over it. They also promise to break the tent town in the square in front of the OG and wait for Yanukovych’s return.

Reuters , citing the press service of the Rada, reports that the acting President Alexander Turchinov cancel the visit to Lithuania to take personal control the situation with separatist protests in Donetsk and Lugansk, and now in Kharkov. Turchinov also "called an urgent meeting of the heads of law enforcement agencies and departments."

- The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Avakov ordered to "squeeze the separatists" without blood
- In Kharkov is reinforced from Donetsk and Lugansk
- The head of the Kharkov Regional State Administration called what was happening a provocation: the script was not prepared in Ukraine
- The President of the Czech Republic called on NATO to introduce troops into Ukraine in case of Russia's invasion to the east

According to ITAR-TASS, a rally on Lenin Square in Donetsk gathered about 2,000 people, rally in support of the Berkut fighters, detained by Ukrainian intelligence services on suspicion of execution of protesters in the Kiev Maidan. The rally participants chanted the slogans, holding the flags of the Russian Federation, St. George’s ribbons, as well as the flags of pro -Russian public organizations.

Then the crowd moved to the building of the state administration (OGA). With the shouts of "Police with the people!" They tried to break through the cordons of law enforcement officers. A brawl began. People in masks pulled out shields, helmets and batons from the police, bottles and stones flew in law enforcement officers, glasses in the building were broken, the website of the newspaper Today reports.

The Donetsk site "island" reports that the assault was headed by people of sports physique in masks and balaclava. The protesters broke through the police cordon and entered the administration building, where they were met by another police barrier. People in masks storm the side doors to the administrative building. Another group broke the lattice and entered the courtyard of the Regional State Administration, and then, breaking glasses selected by the police with batons, penetrated into the building.

The capturing the building called through the sound amplification equipment of the participants of the action to "hold out for at least a day" to form the "People's Regional Council". The protesters read out the resolution: they require an immediate convocation of an extraordinary session of the Donetsk Regional Council and the decision on the referendum on the issue of entering Russia. If until 24:00 (01:00 Moscow time) an extraordinary session will not be convened, the protesters threaten to dissolve the regional council on Monday and as deputies to elect representatives from the public.

The Donetsk police do not interfere in the situation with the capture of the protesters of the building of the regional state administration in order to prevent even greater riots. This was stated by the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Donetsk region Igor Demin. "On the square, near the administration, there are people, and law enforcement officers do not want the situation to overcome the bloody riots. At present, the police are protecting public order," Demin said.

Law enforcement agencies launched an investigation into the capture of the Donetsk Regional State Administration. Criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Art. 294 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (mass riots). The investigative-operational group has been created. The most active participants in the events are established, as well as the initiators of the riots whose actions will be provided with the appropriate legal assessment.

Russian channels are told that they were not captured by the Doga. "Police with us in the building"

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In Lugansk , as a result of the capture of the building of the regional department of the Security Service of Ukraine, eight people were injured, Interfax reports with reference to the 5th channel. According to them, the seven protesters have light bodily harm, the policeman has a suspicion of a spinal fracture.

The city prosecutor's office opened criminal proceedings on the fact of riots. "On the facts of today's events near the SBU building in the Luhansk region, criminal proceedings have begun on the grounds of an offense provided for in paragraph 1 of article 294 of the Criminal Code (" mass riots ")," said the press secretary of the prosecutor Lugansk Olga Dyachenko.

Earlier, two victims were reported: a 21 -year -old soldier of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, who has a neck injured and there is a suspicion of a spinal fracture, as well as a woman from among the protesters - she has a head injury. Both suffered as a result of the fall: the crowd knocked them down.

As Interfax reports, one of the leaders of the protesters turned to the crowd and said that an agreement was reached on the release of six activists and urged so far to terminate active actions. During the riots, only the outer front door was knocked out in the building. The inner armored door was not knocked out, and the protesters fell into the building through the windows of the second floor.

In Kharkov, there was a skirmish between pro -Russian protesters and supporters of Euromaidan. According to UNIAN, about a thousand aggressively configured pro -Russian activists picked the Consulate General of Russia and Poland. Then they were divided into two parts and dispersed in different directions to the city center. Activists of Euromaidan were found near the street of Rymarskaya, a fight began. The police tried to divide the warring parties and take the Euromaidanists on their bus, which was blocked by pro -Russian activists. For more than an hour and a half, police withdrawn euro -Maidan activists from the theater Shevchenko along the classic lane to Klochkovskaya Street. The anti -Maidanites demanded a lynching, and breaking through the police, tried to beat the Euromaidanists. Several people were injured.

The police opened criminal proceedings on the fact of a skirmish between the pro -Russian protesters and Euromaidanists near the theater named after Shevchenko, Interfax reports with reference to the department of public relations of the GU MVD in the Kharkov region. “The investigating authorities are included in the Unified Register of Pre -trial Investigations on the grounds of the crime under Part 2, 296 (“ Hooliganism ”) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,” the press service emphasized.

The day before it was restless in the second city of Donetsk region Mariupol. There, protesters broke into the building of the prosecutor's office , demanding to release the self -proclaimed "people's mayor" of the city of Dmitry Kuzmenko.