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Police and officials from the Ukrainian state guard directorate are holding in detention an activist of the Femen feminist group who went topless at a ceremony of signing of the Ukrainian-Belarusian intergovernmental documents at the Ukrainian presidential office in the presence of the Ukrainian and Belarusian presidents on Friday.

“Officers from the Pechersky district police department and the state guard directorate are talking with her at the scene,” a spokesperson for the Ukrainian National Police department in Kyiv told Interfax when asked whether the woman had been detained.

A number of Ukrainian online publications identified the woman as Anzhelina Diash, a Femen activist.

Femen confirmed that one of its activists “carried out an act of sextremism.”

“Breaking through the guards, the topless activist chanted the slogans ‘Long Live Belarus!’ and ‘Stop Dictatorship!’,” it said.

Femen said it so expressed its attitude toward the Belarusian president’s visit to Ukraine. The group attributed its stunt to events in 2011, when Femen activists holding a protest demonstration in Minsk were “kidnapped by KGB officials, who tortured and humiliated them and then dumped them in a forest naked, scared and without documents.”