President Petro Poroshenko believes that clashes between demonstrators and police outside the parliament building in Kyiv on Oct. 14 represented "an abortive attempt to open a second front in Ukraine," his spokesman said.
“Poroshenko sees the provocations near the [parliament building] as an abortive attempt to open a second front in Ukraine: the police have at last taken action,” Sviatoslav Tseholko wrote on Twitter.
Fifteen police were hurt in the clashes, two of them receiving heavy injuries.
The interior minister’s adviser Anton Heraschenko said 50 demonstrators had been arrested and that more arrests were being made.
Nationalist parties Svoboda and Right Sector denied any involvement in the violence.
