3 police officers injured in clashes with opposition in Kyiv near parliament building
“Preliminary data suggests that three officers have sustained minor injuries,” Skornyak said.
She cited paramedics who were called to provide medical assistance to the wounded at the site of the conflict. Clashes are not abating, reports say. Demonstrators are allegedly trying to break through a police cordon.
According to the Kyiv Police Department, riot police are only offering passive resistance, whereas protesters are hurling smoke bombs at them.
Several thousands of activists gathered in the Independence Square in the heart of the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday in an effort to push the parliament to bring back the 2004 Constitution.
Ukranian protesters attack police with stones and firecrackers near parliament building
In Kyiv Police clashed with protesters near Ukraine parliament. Protesters threw stones at law-enforcement officers and police responded with rubber-bullets and smoke bombs, the Voice of Russia correspondent reports.
Several reporters suffered the effects of tear gas.
Voice of Russia