Ukraine: Svoboda supporters picket outside Odessa city council

A number of Ukrainian nationalists and supporters of the Svoboda party picketed outside the offices of Odessa's city council, Wednesday, after 71 deputies voted in favour of immortalising the memory of the victims of the Odessa massacre which took place on May 2, 2014. During the rally, protesters held placards with messages such as "memorials for Ukrainian heroes not for enemies" and gave speeches to the assembled crowd. Forty-eight people died, with over 200 injured, in a series of events that led to an inferno in the Trade Unions building in Odessa on May 2, 2014. After clashes erupted between anti-Maidan and pro-Maidan protesters, the latter group reportedly set fire to the Trade Unions House where anti-Maidan demonstrators had found refuge. Despite international calls to investigate the tragedy, the perpetrators of the 2014 Odessa massacre have not yet been prosecuted.