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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is calling on Ukrainian authorities to investigate allegations that police attacked journalists covering a protest in the capital last weekend.

The New York-based media watchdog said on March 5 that at least two journalists were injured in Kyiv two days earlier when police dismantled a protest camp near the national parliament building.

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