All-Ukraine Battalion Brotherhood leader arrested for disobeying police
KYIV. Feb 4 (Interfax) - Police on Tuesday night arrested the leader of the All-Ukraine Battalion Brotherhood, Vyacheslav Fursa, for "gross disobedience" to them during a rally outside the president's office in Kyiv and interrogated him, the city police authority told Interfax.
The several dozen All-Ukraine Battalion Brotherhood activists who gathered outside the president's office on Tuesday demanded martial law and the replacement of Ukraine's top security officials, and made an attempt to break into the building.
Fursa said during the demonstration that the Battalion Brotherhood brings together members of about 40 battalions.
Deputy chief of the presidential staff Andriy Taranov, who came out to the demonstrators, accepted a petition to President Petro Poroshenko. Fursa said Taranov had promised to arrange a meeting between Poroshenko and representatives of the demonstrators.
The demonstration finished after Taranov took the petition.
On Wednesday morning, battalion commanders who are parliamentary deputies publicly disowned the All-Ukraine Battalion Brotherhood.
Speaking from the legislature's platform, Andriy Teteruk, commander of the Peacekeeper Battalion and deputy head of the Popular Front group in parliament, accused the organization of "undermining the domestic situation in our country."
