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Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said that police have information about those "who, under the guise of Maidan, commit unlawful actions," and vowed a due response.

“Police have a full dossier on everyone engaged in unlawful
activities under the guise of Maidan. And police will take action,” the
interior minister said.

These “patriots” have some time to leave the center of Kyiv, “take up
arms and go to the front, to really struggle for Ukraine in earnest and
not parasitize in the center of the capital,” he said.

Avakov also said that the Interior Ministry “has a plan on how to end
this disgrace.” “Humanely and in style. And if someone requires, with
the confident force of persuasion too,” he added.

“What is happening on Maidan now is a discreditation of its meaning, a
retail sale of Ukraine. A concentration of incomprehensible,
unlikeable, murky individuals on the country’s main square” is,
according to Avakov, a project of Russian secret agencies and “marginal
parties which have gone into the past.”