Byut-Batkivshchina to demand filing criminal case for beating MPs

The Byut-Batkivshchina Ukraine’s opposition faction is going to apply to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General demanding to file a criminal case against the ruling Party of Regions MPs for “barbaric beating” of opposition MPs, Sergey Sobolev, Deputy Head of the Byut-Batkivshchina faction, declared, according to RIA Novosti.

Note that fight between MPs from the opposition and ruling parties took place after the opposition had blocked parliament’s activities, protesting against filing a criminal case against leader of Batkivshchina, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko. Five MPs from Byut-Batkivshchina were injured in the fight, two out of them were hospitalized and are in a critical condition.

Earlier, Byut-Batkivshchina MP Vladimir Bondarenko said that besides him, members of parliament Mikhail Volynets, Vasily Kravchuk, Yuri Gnatkevich and Yevgeni Suslov were injured but did not say which of them had serious traumas.

According to Bondarenko, the incident had been planned in advance. “It was a planned action as it occurred with lightning speed,” MP stressed adding that no less than 100 MPs from the Party of Regions were involved in the fight. Meanwhile the oppositionist did not exclude that State Security Service officials helped the Party of Regions in the fight.

“We will apply to criminalists, to respective bodies, particularly, Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, to punish those committing the crime,” Sobolev said.