Crimean PM reports attack on Crimean activists' buses in Cherkasy
KYIV. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Anatoliy Mogilev, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, said Crimean participants in a pro-government rally conducted in Kyiv have been attacked in the Cherkasy region.
"Buses carrying peaceful Crimean activists who were returning home from Kyiv were attacked last night. There is information that a total of 320 people were on the buses. In the Cherkasy region, the buses were stopped by armed extremists. There is precise information that three buses were burned and the people were taken off the buses, and some of them were subjected to violence. Seven of them are in hospital," Mogilev said in a statement released by the information policy department of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on Friday.
Mogilev said the authorities established contact with each of the activists to determine their location and their state of health last night.
"In the current situation of chaos in the country, we are trying to involve all relevant authorities from other regions in this work to organize the return of our people to Crimea. We are doing everything possible and seemingly impossible to resolve this issue as soon as possible," Mogilev said.