A crowd of pro-Russian activists wearing St. George ribbons have seized the building of the regional prosecutor's office in Donetsk.
More than a thousand people stormed the prosecutor’s office building, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported. Now they have got into the building and are throwing documents, most probably criminal cases files, through the windows.
The protesters formed “a corridor of shame” through which they let the law-enforcers who were defending the building. From time to time somebody from the crowd started hitting the passing policemen. Before this, the policemen surrendered their shields, batons and body armor.
When an armored personnel carrier appeared in the adjacent street, the crowd rushed to it and it was forced to back off. There are uniformed people on the armored carrier, but it is yet hard to say who they are.
There were around 200 police officers in the building of the regional prosecutor’s office. The attackers used stones and Molotov cocktails during the assault.
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