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Ukraine: Police clash with Right Sector militia
Special units surround fascists after meeting turns violent

UKRAINIAN police were containing about 20 Right Sector gunmen in a wood yesterday after deadly clashes with officers on Saturday.

Police commandos, special national guard units and the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) evacuated civilians and surrounded the neonazi group on the outskirts of the western city of Mukachevo.

The SBU said that the militants were refusing to surrender unless ordered to by Right Sector leader and MP Dmitry Yarosh.

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