The attackers were also heard yelling nationalist slogans such as “Glory to the nation, death to the enemies,” and “Ukraine above all.”

There was a large police presence at the event, but when the situation became more tense, the security forces seemed incapable of separating the two groups. Journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/ColborneMichael?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ColborneMichael</a> took punch to face, sustained cut & had glasses broken by far-right radicals while covering today’s transgender rights rally as police not only stood by but physically removed activists from city-sanctioned event.
A planned transgender rights rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, is attacked by far-right radicals.