Police detain over twenty people in connection with clashes in Kyiv - Interior Ministry
KYIV. Jan 20 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian police have detained over twenty people in connection with the events that took place in central Kyiv in the past few hours.
"The police have detained over twenty people. They have been taken to a district police station. They are now being identified and the degree of their involvement in these events is being determined," the Ukrainian Interior Ministry press service told Interfax on Monday.
Nine people have been detained in connection with the investigation into a criminal case opened on the basis of the legislation dealing with mass riots, the ministry said. Some people were released after protocols of administration violations were made against them.
Among the detainees are members of various political parties.
In the meantime, the Kyiv police are probing information on accusations made against the special task police by two construction workers. A video posted on the Internet in the early hours of Monday shows two young men saying that Berkut special task police officers had come into the building where they worked as construction workers, battered them, took their clothes and made them join the protesters in the Grushevsky Street. The men show numerous bruises on their bodies in the video.
"This information is being investigated because none of them has contacted us," the Interior Ministry's Main Department for Kyiv told Interfax on Monday morning.
