KIEV, Feb. 22 – Kiev police have launched a criminal inquiry after receiving reports that a group of people hurled rocks into two bank branches and office premises in the city center on Saturday.

It emerged earlier that fighters from the Ukrainian OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) territorial-defense battalion hurled rocks into the Kiev office of businessman Rinat Akhmetov and threw rocks, and green paint, and damaged office property at an Alfa-Bank branch in central Kiev. Later, they poured green paint, and threw rocks at a Russia's Sberbank branch.