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Ukraine: Police arrest 45 amid attacks on victory marches

UKRAINIAN police arrested over 50 people yesterday as neonazis attacked those celebrating the victory over fascism in the second world war.

Deputy Interior Minister Serhiy Yarovoy said 25 of those were detained in the capital Kiev.

There far-right thugs attacked a march commemorating the Immortal Regiment — Soviet service personnel who fought in WWII — as it approached the Eternal Flame memorial in the Park of Eternal Glory, Russia’s Sputnik reported.

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