Non Exclusive: KYIV, UKRAINE - AUGUST 31, 2021 - Commander of the National Guard Colonel-General Mykola Balan salutes during the tribute-paying ceremo

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Non Exclusive: KYIV, UKRAINE - AUGUST 31, 2021 - Commander of the National Guard Colonel-General Mykola Balan salutes during the tribute-paying ceremony to four National Guard members who died as a result of the grenade explosion outside the Verkhovna Rada on August 31, 2015, in Konstytutsii Square, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, one of the protesters threw a grenade at the riot police lines killing four National Guard soldiers and injuring more than 140 people during clashes prompted by the adoption of the amendments to the Constitution concerning decentralization in eastern Ukraine in the first reading.

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