KIEV (AFP) – Ukrainian authorities on Friday charged two senior members of an ultra-nationalist party over violent clashes in Kiev that killed three police this week.Former agriculture minister Igor Shvayka and Yuriy Syrotyuk, a former lawmaker, were charged with participating in mass disorder, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP.The two men are senior representatives of the far-right anti-Russian Svoboda party whose activists are also battling Moscow-backed rebels in the countrys east.If convicted, the two face up to 15 years in prison.Three police officers died and more than 140 people were wounded after violent clashes broke out outside Ukrainian parliament between …read more
Source: Dunya TV
