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Experts have confiscated several weapons from Kyiv's Dnipro Hotel, which used to house the headquarters of the Right Sector ultra-nationalistic movement.

“This morning, representatives of the Right Sector, escorted by officers of law enforcement agencies, left the Dnipro Hotel and headed to one of the [organization’s] bases outside the city. Experts are currently working at the hotel. Several weapons have been found there,” the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on its Web site on Tuesday.

Police are also investigating whether or not the confiscated weapons could have been used in crimes other than the events that occurred in Kyiv on Monday evening, when a Right Sector member went on a shooting spree near the hotel, wounding three people, among them Kyiv city administration first deputy head Bohdan Dubas.

In response to the incident, police special operations units encircled the Right Sector’s headquarters, based at the Dnipro Hotel.

Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, for his part, said on Tuesday morning that Right Sector representatives were leaving the Dnipro Hotel unarmed.

“They got on their buses and headed to one of the camps outside of the city escorted by officers of the Ukrainian Security Service. Interior Ministry experts have already started to examine the vacated building,” Avakov said.