As a result of the confrontation, several police officers were injured, a criminal case was opened.

“During the scuffle, the protesters used gas canisters and threw fires at the guards.

As a result, 17 active participants who violated law and order were taken to the police department, ”RIA Novosti quoted the city police as saying.

On the fact of the clashes, the security forces added, a criminal case was opened under the article on resistance to a representative of a law enforcement agency.

Earlier, the Lviv Regional Council appealed to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Verkhovna Rada with a call to return the title of "Hero of Ukraine" to Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera.