Theories abound about the violence that has flared again in Kiev. But despite profiting from it,Russia is very unlikely to beget perpetrated itA “day of fury” was proclaimed on Monday by the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda (Freedom). The fury ended with a grenade being thrown into lines of soldiers guarding the Kiev parliament building, where it exploded, or killing one soldier and injuring more than 100 people.
The last day of summer had started strangely peacefully. The lines of text on our TV screens told of a sharp decrease in Russia-backed separatist military activity,of zero fatalities among Ukrainian soldiers and volunteer forces on the frontline. The most recent international peace negotiations in Minsk had also given rise to unexpected optimism. The separatists had promised a total ceasefire from 1 September and the beginning of talks on pulling back even light artillery from the line of engagement.
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Source: theguardian.com