http://www.rt.com/news/313880-ukraine-radicals-protest-parliament/
>Dozens are feared to have been injured during clashes in front of the parliament in Kiev, the Ukrainian National Guard said. Crowds of protesters came to oppose amendments to the constitution that would provide for decentralization of the country.
>Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that “about 90 people were wounded near the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), including several people in serious condition.”
>According to the minister, the wounds were caused “by several explosive devices thrown by the people wearing Svoboda (Freedom) Party T-shirts, who provoked clashes with the National Guard in front of the Rada.”
>“30 people have already been detained. But there’ll be more arrests. The grenade thrower has been captured, several grenades, including maximum damage F1 grenade, have been seized from him,” Avakov said, as cited by TASS.
>“There’s one killed National Guard troop – a gunshot wound to the heart… we thought it was shrapnel – but it turns out someone used the confusion to shoot,” he wrote on Facebook.
>Tweets from journalists at the scene said supporters of the radical group Right Sector were brutally attacking police officers.
>The Ukrainian UNIAN news agency also reported that smoke bombs were being thrown along with stones. Police are now trying to stop the demonstrators from storming the parliament building.
>Earlier in the day, the parliament passed amendments to the Constitution on decentralization in the first reading. The amendments proposed by President Petro Poroshenko were supported by 265 of the parliament’s 450 lawmakers.
>Despite the special status for the war-torn areas being a separate bill, the protesters who came out in the capital Monday were angered by the prospect of Eastern Ukraine getting autonomy from the central government. Photos posted on social media showed people holding banners saying, “No to special status of Donbass,” and “Occupants in Donbass, go away.”