KIEV (Sputnik) — Earlier on Monday, the parliament approved the first reading of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's proposed constitutional amendments on the decentralization of power in the country, triggering unrest outside the Verhovna Rada.
About 30 people were detained during the clashes.
“One killed, 125 wounded and 12 people on the operating tables, one fighter in a deep coma and doctors have not given prognosis for five other yet,” Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.
The decentralization for the Ukraine’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk was stipulated by the Minsk agreements signed by Kiev and militias of Ukrain's eastern Donbass region in February.
Under the deal, aimed at the reconciliation of the Ukrainain crisis, constitutional reforms aimed at decentralizing power in Ukraine and local elections in Donbass must be concluded before the end of 2015.
