UKRAINE-CRISIS/RIGHT SECTOR RALLY Right Sector members rally in Kiev after shootout in western Ukraine

Record ID: 147569

  • Title: UKRAINE-CRISIS/RIGHT SECTOR RALLY Right Sector members rally in Kiev after shootout in western Ukraine
  • Date: 11th July 2015
  • Summary: KIEV, UKRAINE (JULY 11, 2015) (REUTERS) CROWD GATHERED ON A STREET LEADING TO PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, CHANTING (Ukrainian): 'REVOLUTION!' MEN IN CAMOUFLAGE CLOTHING, WITH THEIR MOUTHS AND NOSES COVERED, CHANTING (Ukrainian): 'REVOLUTION!' PROTESTERS IN CAMOUFLAGE CLOTHING STANDING IN STREET ROW OF PROTESTERS IN CAMOUFLAGE CLOTHING WITH FACES COVERED VARIOUS O
  • Embargoed: 26th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Ukraine
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAE8C1UBKG9J89QPCFMRXCPSGKT
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Members of Ukraine's right-wing group Right Sector rallied near the presidential administration building in Kiev on Saturday (July 11).
    It came after a shootout in western Ukraine where armed men claiming to members of the paramilitary volunteer corps of the group opened fire against the security team of a local deputy and later police.
    Right Sector members' demands at the protest were to stop the persecution of their members.
    "We (Right Sector) don't need anything at all for ourselves, we want justice and for people to live normally. But when we try to stop flows of contraband (smuggling) and they start killing us then this is a question that should be addressed to the government, not to us," said Right Sector spokesman Artem Skoropadsky.
    In a statement on the official website of Right Sector it said two members of its group had been killed and four wounded on Saturday.
    Local reports of casualties vary.
    Right Sector played a big role in Kiev street protests in 2014 that toppled former Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovich, setting off a confrontation with Russia and sparking the worst Russia-West crisis since the end of the Cold War.
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