Ukraine Day 1381: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Four demonstrators were briefly detained when protesters and police clashed during a protest on Maidan to demand justice for those killed in 2013-2014.
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Protesters on Maidan on November 29, 2017. Photo via Ukrainska Pravda
Hundreds of demonstrators bearing torches marched from Independence Square (Maidan) to the presidential administration building, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing Ukrinform.
Translation: Torches, firecrackers and smoke bombs: participants in an action near the Presidential Administration demand investigation of crimes
Participants demanded investigation of the crimes against the protesters during the EuroMaidan demonstrations of 2013.
On the night of November 30, 2013 Berkut riot police beat demonstrators on the Maidan, the first show of force from the Yanukovych government against the EuroMaidan movement.
Tonight, protesters marched along Institutska Street toward Bankova Street, but police halted them.
Several activists then threw smoke bombs between the procession and the police. Some marchers then headed to the Prosecutor General’s Office, and some to the Interior Ministry, Gordon reported.
Ukrinform reported that some protesters tried to put up tents but were stopped by police. Law-enforcers then pushed the protesters back, but some of them started throwing snowballs at police.
Police then surrounded the demonstrators. Four people were detained and then later released without charge, police reported.
On the Lugansk line, Russia-backed forces fired with heavy machine guns on Novoaleksandrovka and Novotoshkovskoye; on the Donetsk line, Vodyanoye and Pavlopol were attacked with mortar launchers and grenade-launchers and small arms were used on Verknyetoretskoye.
— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick