Police in Kyiv have arrested up to ten people over the events in Independence Square on Thursday, Aug. 7 after 50 members of the Kyiv-1 and Kyiv-2 battalions were injured. Police have launched a criminal inquiry on the charge of hooliganism.
“Among law enforcers alone 50 have been injured,” Ukraine’s chief police officer Oleksandr Tereschuk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday. He said the injured – members of the Kyiv-1 and Kyiv-2 battalions – did not sustain gunshot wounds. Three of them sustained serious injuries.
“Today police opened a criminal inquiry under Article 296 part four (hooliganism). Between eight and ten people have been arrested,” Tereschuk said.
On Thursday morning utility workers started dismantling barricades in central Kyiv trying to clear the road in Khreschatyk Street for traffic. Tent camp inhabitants responded by torching tires. Disturbances ensued.
