On the Victory Day over Nazism on May 9, 600 thousand people came to the streets throughout Ukraine, such data was released by the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Artem Shevchenko.

"This is a fairly large figure and to ensure public safety and public order was not easy," said Shevchenko.

According to him, without provocation and fights did not happen in Kiev, Dnipro, Odessa and Zaporozhye.

In the capital, the most acute situation was in Kiev, near the office of the volunteer organization OUN.

Because of the clashes, the police detained more than fifty people, injuries were received by 8 policemen and 15 participants of shares. Their lives are now not threatened.

"We believe that we have managed on the whole, but the specifics in different regions have had their own. I want to note that thanks to the powerful preventive preventive actions of the National Police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in general this year, it was possible at these mass events on May 9 to reduce to minimum the number of cases of using prohibited symbols, "Shevchenko noted..