Mayor Gennady Kernes managed to get one of the hostages out after spending around 10 minutes inside the barricaded Right Sector headquarters.

“There are around 40 radicals inside,” Kernes told journalists, as cited by Itar-Tass. “Two men remain hostage, one of whom is a policeman who entered the building for negotiations.”

Police deployed at the scene cordoned off the area and in the early hours of Saturday stormed the building. Around 30 gunmen were detained as a result.