Kharkiv protesters used grenades - Ukraine acting president
KYIV. April 8 (Interfax) - Ukraine's acting president and parliament speaker, Oleksandr Turchynov, claims that protesters used weapons as they were cleared by police from the regional administration building in the city of Kharkiv, as a result of which several policemen were injured.
"As the building of the regional administration was freed in Kharkiv, the separatists used both weapons and hand grenades against police officers," Turchynov said at a parliamentary session on Kyiv on Tuesday morning.
The acting president, however, declined to say exactly how many policemen were injured, adding that some of them were in serious condition.
Hopefully, the building of the Ukrainian Security Service's branch in Luhansk and the Donetsk regional administration headquarters will be cleared of protesters soon, he said.
"The attempts made by the separatists to stage provocations in Dnipropetrovsk and the Mykolayiv region have been contained. I express my sincere gratitude to the officers of security structures who professionally fulfilled their duties," Turchynov said.