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A rally demanding a purge of government officials is continuing not far from the Verkhovna Rada building in central Kyiv with some of the demonstrators representing the Right Sector, the political party Volya, Svoboda all-Ukrainian Association and the Automaidan movement making an attempt to push closer to the building.

However, the group was broken up by police, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported.

Several hundred demonstrators remain on Constitution Square near the parliament building. They are chanting: ” Lustration !”