Violent police raid on a Roma settlement in Uzgorod

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A special assignment unit within the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior, Berkut, burst into the Radvanka settlement in the early morning, according to media reports and testimonies from local residents. The law enforcement officials used tear gas and beat residents with rubber batons. The raid on the settlement had been planned and carried out as part of an ongoing operation to target places that could be centres of organised criminal activity.