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RFE/RL: Gunshots fired as brawl breaks out in town council session in Dnipro

Published May 4, 2018 at 6:29 pm

Activists of National Corps, Right Sector and Svoboda political party walk with a huge poster which reads "Everything is yet to start" on the Institutska street during the march of dignity of nationalist organizations on Feb. 22. (2017)

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Police in the town of Nikopol in Ukraine’s eastern Dnipropetrovsk region are investigating violence and gunfire that erupted at a town council meeting.

Nikopol police told RFE/RL that activists of a nationalist group Right Sector entered the building during a meeting on May 4 and clashed with council members.