: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Grenade explodes during Ukraine clashes; 1 officer killed


KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — As lawmakers took up a measure to give greater powers to separatists in eastern Ukraine, nationalist protesters clashed with police outside parliament on Monday, and the Interior Ministry said one officer was killed in a grenade blast and more than 100 were wounded.

The decentralization of power was a condition demanded by Russia for a truce signed in Minsk in February aimed at ending the fighting between Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed separatists that has left more than 6,800 dead since April 2014.

No injuries were reported among the several hundred protesters, including 100 die-hard activists, most of …read more

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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