17:32 18.07.2015

Right Sector to hold popular assembly in Kyiv on Tuesday

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Right Sector to hold popular assembly in Kyiv on Tuesday

The Right Sector movement has ended a protest rally outside the presidential administration in Kyiv, and plans to hold an all-Ukrainian assembly on Tuesday, July 21.

"At the moment, the rally outside the presidential administration has stopped. However, this does not mean that the Right Sector will stop the struggle against the internal occupation… We will in no case abandon Mukacheve rebels, and we will fight for them," reads a statement posted on the Right Sector's page on Facebook on Saturday.

It says that the popular assembly dubbed "Away With Traitors in Power!" organized by the Right Sector will start on Independence Square at 19.00 on July 21.

It was reported earlier that a shootout involving people close to parliament deputy Mykhailo Lanio, local police officers and members of Right Sector took place in Mukacheve in Zakarpattia region on July 11. Four people were killed and up to 14 were wounded in the exchange of fire.

According to the Interior Ministry information, more than ten Right Sector fighters were hiding in a forest in the vicinity of Mukacheve and four were detained.

Right Sector claimed that the shootout was provoked by criminals led by Lanio whose smuggling pipeline they had blocked.

At the same time, a number of media outlets posted information saying that the root of the conflict was redistribution of spheres of influence in 'protection' of contraband, namely, cigarettes. There is a theory that the Right Sector decided to steal leadership from the Lanio group. Another theory suggested that the Right Sector had similar intentions but acted in the interest of parliament member Viktor Baloha.

On July 14, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decided to create an Ad Hoc Investigative Commission to investigate the circumstances of the conflict in Zakarpattia region. The commission is to be headed by Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Mykola Palamarchuk. The parliamentary factions and groups have delegated their representatives to the commission.

Leader of the Right Sector Dmytro Yarosh said on Friday that he didn't urge the organization's fighters hiding in the forests outside Mukacheve to surrender because he didn't believe in guarantees of their security, and if there was an order to liquidate them, the Right Sector reserved the right to protect their fighters.

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