Some 56, including two journalists, were injured in the clashes breaking out near Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada building on Aug. 31, deputy head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Oleksiy Honcharenko said.
“The latest reports are the following. According to my sources 56 were wounded, including two journalists, one of them is a Frenchman. Other wounded people are law enforcers. There are several heavily wounded people,” he wrote on his Facebook page on Aug. 31 afternoon.
Chief of the Kyiv main police department Oleksandr Tereschuk said earlier that the clashes near the parliament building injured around 100 law enforcers.
Meanwhile, Channel 5 journalist Oleksandr Arhat wrote on his Twitter page that the blast at the Rada building wounded journalists of Channel 5 and TSN.
