Berkut special police have detained some 30 members of Avtonomny Opir anarchist organization near Arsenalna metro station in Kyiv.
An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reports that activists of the organization planned to join an alternative May 1 labor parade. They stood in a group holding their own symbols and banners dressed in black and wearing balaclavas.
A member of Avtonomny Opir calling himself Anton explained why they were dressed so to journalists: “This is called a black block. Many of our people work and study and in this country such actions can backfire.”
Some 100 officers of Berkut special police surrounded the activists and ordered: “Everyone wearing masks board police buses.”
