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In Kiev, about 200 protesters remain near the Verkhovna Rada building, according to the FB page of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

According to the police, among the demonstrators, about 20 people are representatives of the Party of Ex -President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili "The movement of new forces", about 100 - veterans of the Donbass volunteer battalion, another 50 - supporters of the ex -head of the SBU Valentin Nalyavaychenko "Justice".

In the center of the Ukrainian capital, reinforced security measures continue to operate, about three thousand police officers, protests and passers -by are being detained there when passing through the scope of the metal detector.

The press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Artem Shevchenko, promised not to disperse the protesters if they do not "show aggression." "We will not use force, just do not violate public order, do not attack, do not attack, do not carry weapons," the official said.

On the eve of Kiev, about five thousand people went under the Verkhovna Rada for a rally for political reform , organized by parties “The movement of new forces”, “Fatherland”, “Self -Moal”, “Demaliance”, “Freedom”, “National Corps”, the movements of “Alternative”, “Honestly” and other political forces.

The rally participants demanded to cancel the deputy inviolability, to create an anti -corruption court and adopt a law on parliamentary elections in open lists. On the same day, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko introduced a bill to the Verkhovna Rada on the abolition of the inviolability of deputies since 2020.

The action ended with clashes: a skirmish with the police arose on Grushevsky Street, when several dozens of supporters of the Saakashvili party tried to carry the tent to the building, bypassing the scope of the metal detector, and the police began to interfere with it. The fight with law enforcement officers continued, the demonstrators took away several shields from them. In response, the police launched tear gas.

Then, however, the security forces stopped interrupting the protesters, and they managed to install tents.

Another conflict with the police occurred in the evening. The police approached the fence who shared the protesters and the security forces, and stated that they would check everyone who enters and leaves the protest camp. The demonstrators did not like this, they fell a fence and began to tear off the helmet from the security forces. The fight lasted about 10 minutes, then the conflict managed to settle.

In total, three protesters and one policeman suffered in a skirmish under the Rada, Kiev said in the National Police of Kiev. Two demonstrators received the chemical burns of the eyes, one - a bruise of the head, the policeman applied a closed head injury and a bruise during a fight on Grushevsky Street. On the fact of an attack on the law enforcement officer, the case is opened under part 2 of Article 345 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (causing beating of light or moderate gravity to an employee of the law enforcement agency in connection with the performance of official duties; up to five years of the colony).