• Police officers secure the area near the western Ukrainian city of Mukachevo Sunday, where at least two people were killed Saturday in a gun and grenade attack involving the country's notorious nationalist militia Right Sector, but details of the violence remained confused. Police had surrounded some gunmen in a wooded area of Mukachevo and were trying to negotiate their peaceful surrender, a statement from the regional prosecutor's office said. | AP
    Police officers secure the area near the western Ukrainian city of Mukachevo Sunday, where at least two people were killed Saturday in a gun and grenade attack involving the country's notorious nationalist militia Right Sector, but details of the violence remained confused. Police had surrounded some gunmen in a wooded area of Mukachevo and were trying to negotiate their peaceful surrender, a statement from the regional prosecutor's office said. | AP

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KIEV – A Ukrainian far-right group demanded the resignation of the interior minister and said it would block roads around Kiev on Sunday in a standoff over a fatal gun battle that challenges the authority of the government.

Kiev has called on Right Sector, which played a prominent role in protests that toppled Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich a year ago, to lay down their weapons after a shootout on Saturday in the town of Mukacheve killed at least two people.

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