Korrespondent.net reports that Dmytro Yarosh, leader of Pravyi Sektor (Right Sector), has announced that the ultra-nationalist party and paramilitary group will hold an "emergency conference" in Kiev next week.

Yarosh said that decisions would be made there "on our future activities."

In addition, Pravyi Sektor would, he said, hold a public meeting on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Maidan Square, but he did not specify when.

Yarosh accused the Ukrainian government of conducting an information war against his party, following a shoot-out in the western Zakarpattia region last weekend.

The Interpreter translates:

"They are trying to use this incident to destroy our structures - our military, logistical and political organizations. There is a constant barrage of defamation. We, as far as we can, are biting back, we're putting out some information."

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