• A grenade exploded outside Ukraine’s parliament during a nationalist protest against a vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east, killing one police officer, the interior ministry said. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
    A grenade exploded outside Ukraine’s parliament during a nationalist protest against a vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east, killing one police officer, the interior ministry said. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
  • Street battles broke out between dozens of demonstrators and police outside parliament as MPs backed on first reading controversial constitutional amendments giving more autonomy to pro-Russian separatists. Sergei Supinsky / AFP Photo
    Street battles broke out between dozens of demonstrators and police outside parliament as MPs backed on first reading controversial constitutional amendments giving more autonomy to pro-Russian separatists. Sergei Supinsky / AFP Photo
  • It was worst unrest in Kiev since a bloody popular uprising ousted Kremlin-backed Viktor Yanukovych early last year. Yuriy Kirnichy / AFP Photo
    It was worst unrest in Kiev since a bloody popular uprising ousted Kremlin-backed Viktor Yanukovych early last year. Yuriy Kirnichy / AFP Photo
  • Around 100 people were injured on Monday including around 90 police, with authorities detaining some 30 people. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
    Around 100 people were injured on Monday including around 90 police, with authorities detaining some 30 people. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
  • Smoke rises from the parliament building in Kiev as activists of radical Ukrainian parties, including the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda (Freedom), clash with police officers. Sergei Supinsky / AFP Photo
    Smoke rises from the parliament building in Kiev as activists of radical Ukrainian parties, including the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda (Freedom), clash with police officers. Sergei Supinsky / AFP Photo
  • Interior Minister Arsen Avakov initially said the officer, who is believed to be 24 or 25, died from a bullet wound to the heart but later wrote that he was apparently killed by a fragment of a grenade. Yuriy Kirnichy / AFP Photo
    Interior Minister Arsen Avakov initially said the officer, who is believed to be 24 or 25, died from a bullet wound to the heart but later wrote that he was apparently killed by a fragment of a grenade. Yuriy Kirnichy / AFP Photo
  • The decentralization of power was a condition of 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. Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA
    The decentralization of power was a condition of 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. Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA
  • While Ukrainian nationalists fear that the bill would incite separatism, Russia-backed rebels in the east and Moscow say the bill doesn’t give regions enough powers and is short of the pledges Kiev made in Minsk. Sergei Supinsky / AFP Photo
    While Ukrainian nationalists fear that the bill would incite separatism, Russia-backed rebels in the east and Moscow say the bill doesn’t give regions enough powers and is short of the pledges Kiev made in Minsk. Sergei Supinsky / AFP Photo
  • A final vote on the constitutional changes will be held during parliament’s fall session, which begins on Tuesday. No specific date has yet been set. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
    A final vote on the constitutional changes will be held during parliament’s fall session, which begins on Tuesday. No specific date has yet been set. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters

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Protesters and police clash outside Ukraine parliament - in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

August 31, 2015

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A grenade exploded outside Ukraine’s parliament during a nationalist protest against a vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east, killing one police officer. About 100 other officers were injured in the clashes, 10 of them seriously.

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