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The head of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction, Arseniy Yatseniuk, has stated that Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andriy Kliuyev and Leader of the Ukrainian Choice public movement Viktor Medvedchuk were involved in the development of the scenario of the clashes outside the building of the presidential administration in Kyiv on December 1.

“We’ve got information that Andriy Kliuyev, Viktor Medvedchuk and
other pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian people are behind this scenario,”
Yatseniuk said at a press briefing at the headquarters of the National
Resistance in Kyiv on Monday.

In turn, Svoboda Party Leader Oleh Tiahnybok said that Berkut riot
police detachments from various regions of Ukraine took part in the
clashes on December 1.

“As far as we’re informed, it was a mixed Berkut detachment, including the Luhansk and Dnipropetrovsk detachments,” he said.