There were clashes outside the Rada building in Kyiv on Monday / Photo from UNIAN

"What we've got as of now, 122 persons who have been wounded in clashes outside the Verkhovna Rada, in an explosion of a grenade thrown by Svoboda Party representatives and protesters. One of them, a 24-year-old National Guard serviceman, who is a conscript from the city of Kherson, has died. Twelve people are undergoing surgery in a Defense Ministry hospital, seven people are undergoing surgery in Interior Ministry hospitals, several of them are in a serious condition. One of them is in a deep coma," Avakov said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.

What is more, two French TV journalists have also been wounded and are in a hospital now.

Among the wounded are servicemen from the National Guard, police officers, the state guards service, the interior ministry's riot police and police officers from Kyiv police stations.

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"Deputy Minister Vasyl Paskal [in charge of criminal investigation] has a shrapnel wound," the minister said.

Photos from UNIAN

As UNIAN reported, clashes outside the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv started shortly after the parliament had voted on decentralization-related amendments to the Constitution on Monday.

Protesters disagreeing with the amendments started throwing bottles, smoke bombs and paving stones at law enforcement officers. Also, a grenade was thrown at them.