Dnipropetrovsk - A scuffle between excited football fans and police occurred outside the Dnipropetrovsk city council.
Some 200 football fans gathered at the city’s Kalinin Park so as to stop provocateurs and thugs hired by the government, or the so-called “titushki” from getting into Kyiv, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent said.
Having failed to find “titushki”, the fans headed single file along the city’s central avenue.
Among them were young men aged between 18 and 30, most of whom were wearing masks. They chanted: “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!”
When passing by the city council, the demonstrators started shouting abuse and throwing snowballs, and then a stick, at police officers.
Meanwhile, there was a brief scuffle between the ultras and police which ended once officers from the Berkut special police unit emerged from the city council building.
After that the young people started to disperse. Police did not make any arrests.
No one was injured in the scuffle.
