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The Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Main Investigative Directorate summoned for interrogation 30 people, including the leaders and members of the Svoboda all-Ukraine union, during the investigation in a criminal case opened over the offensive acts staged near Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada on Monday, Aug. 31.

“During the investigation of the criminal case opened over violation of the public order by a group, staging massive disorders, inflicting damage to the life and health of law enforcers when they were performing their service duties and illegal use of weapons around 30 people were summoned for interrogation in the Interior Ministry’s Main Investigative Directorate today,” the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said in a statement posted on its website on Tuesday afternoon.

In particular, leader of the Svoboda all-Ukraine union Oleh Tiahnybok, former lawmaker and Svoboda member Yuriy Syrotiuk, former minister of agrarian policy and member of the party Ihor Shvaika and others are summoned for interrogation.