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The organizers of the clashes that occurred outside the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada on Aug. 31, including politicians, must be held strictly to account, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

“It was an anti-Ukrainian protest, for which all of its organizers without exception, all representatives of political forces must be held strictly liable,” Poroshenko said in a televised address on Aug. 31.