Law enforcement leave parliament building in Kyiv
KYIV. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The law enforcement officials who were located along the perimeter of the Ukrainian parliament in the past 24 hours are getting on buses and leaving.
The law enforcement officials began collecting their belongings and getting on police buses, which are gradually leaving Grushevsky Street, around 2:00 p.m., an Interfax correspondent has reported.
The buses are heading in the direction of metro station Arsenalna.
The two water canons have also left the parliament building.
Volodymyr Aryev, a member of the Batkivshchina faction of the parliament, could not say why the law enforcement officials have left the territory around the parliament and the adjacent street.
"We don't know yet. They left so quickly and they didn't say why," he said.
At the same time, an Interfax correspondent has reported that two water canons and several trucks remain on Grushevsky Street between the parliament and the Cabinet building, but there are no law enforcement near them or in the trucks.
Leaving the square in front of the parliament building, the law enforcement officials left their mattresses, food, the wooden trays on which they rested, and several wooden boxes, some of which contained metal helmets and national flags of Ukraine.
Opposition parliamentarians are walking around the parliament building in bewilderment.