Violent protests have broken out in Ukraine, with thousands of demonstrators clashing with police outside the Parliament in Kiev.
Many of the masked protesters were armed with metal chains and batons, with smoke bombs and stones being hurled through the building's windows.
Air guns have also been used to smash most windows on the first floor.
The clashes forced politicians, who had just passed anti-corruption laws and voted in a new defence minister, to go into recess, ahead of national elections on 26 October.
Zoryan Shkiryak, an aide to Ukraine's interior minister, said: "This is a provocative action directed on destabilising the situation in Ukraine."
It remained unclear what the demonstrators were demanding. According to a Reuters photographer, some of the young people on the ground declined to state their political affiliation.
The Interior Ministry said 36 people were detained.
Stepan Poltorak, a former National Guard chief, was confirmed as the country's new defence minister by an overwhelming majority of 245-1.
On Tuesday, he pledged to establish an army capable of standing up to Russia - but his main challenge will be boosting morale within a force that has lost 1,000 soldiers in the past six months.
"Ukraine needs peace, and only a modern, well-trained and well-supplied mobile armed forces can guarantee this peace," Mr Poltorak added.
Meanwhile, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, is scheduled to hold talks with John Kerry, the US secretary of state.
But in a press conference beforehand, Mr Lavrov insisted Moscow was unwilling to negotiate over requirements for the removal of sanctions.
"Whoever introduced them should cancel them. We are not going to implement someone's far-fetched demands," he told reporters.
"We don't know who is losing out more in terms of the economy: Russia or the European Union."
Despite his defiant tone, Mr Lavrov stressed that the Kremlin was prepared to strengthen its ties with Europe once again.
"I think that no clear-headed person in Europe would dispute an idea that there is no sensible alternative to improving ties between Russia and the EU," he added.
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