Kyiv police didn't use water cannon against protesters, fire hose used to put out burning bus
Kyiv police say they did not use water cannons against protesters in the center of Kyiv on Sunday.
"The police did not use water cannons against protesters, but a fire hose was used to put out a burning bus," the press service of the Interior Ministry's main department in Kyiv said.
Clashes between police and radical protesters in Hrushevskoho Street downtown Kyiv started on Sunday. A police bus pulled outside the cordon was set on fire by unidentified people.
It was -7 degrees Celsius in Kyiv at the moment of the clashes.
Ukrainian laws ban the use of a water cannon when the temperature is below 0 °C.
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