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However, Right Sector spokesman Alexei Byk said that the video had been intentionally distorted and that the sounds of them being fired upon were removed, the KyivPost reported.
At least two Pravy Sektor fighters were killed in the ensuing melee, which also saw two police cars destroyed by grenade launchers.
Medical authorities in the area said that 11 people, including police officers and civilians, had been injured in the shootout.
“If there’s a new revolution, Ukraine’s President Poroshenko and his teammates won’t be able to make it out of the country the way the previous president [pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych] did”, Skoropadsky told VOA.
Mr Lanyo denied criminal activity and claimed to have no idea why he was targeted by Right Sector, which came to prominence during the violent protests in Kyiv that ousted Mr Yanukovich in February 2014.
The far-right nationalist group demanded the resignation of the interior minister at the weekend after two of its members were killed in a firefight with police in Mukacheve, where it said it was set upon by police.
Adrian Karatnycky of the Washington, D.C.-based Atlantic Council said via Facebook that “vigilantism and far-right military formations” are Ukraine’s “curse”, and called for its government to launch an investigation into Right Sector activities. The ceasefire is among the grievances of the Right Sector, which insists any peace with ethnic Russians is “unconstitutional”. As of Sunday night, Ukrainian government officials were still negotiating with Right Sector for the gunmen to surrender. At least two people were killed Saturday in a gun and grenade attack in Mukachevo involving the country’s notorious nationalist milit…
Analysts said the moves could threaten to open up a new front in Kyiv’s battle to maintain order in Ukraine, where a rebellion in its east continues.
But Mustafa Nayyem, a Ukrainian MP and investigative journalist who arrived on the scene on Saturday, said the violence was prompted by dispute over control of the contraband cigarette trade. However, rights groups including Amnesty worldwide have accused Right Sector fighters of being involved in extrajudicial detention and torture.
Pravy Sektor leader Dmytro Yarosh – a bombastic parliament member who was wounded in eastern Ukrainian clashes and whom Moscow identifies as a neo-Nazi – pleaded for calm.
DNR spokesman, Eduard Basurin, confirmed that “Right Sector is withdrawing some of its troops and deploying them to Kyiv on the order of their commanders”.
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