KIEV, March 31 - The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office is raiding the office of the Antimonopoly Committee, the authorized government official at the committee Svitlana Panaiotidi said.

"The Prosecutor General's Office [has been at the site] since 7:30 a.m. [It said] either open the doors or [they] will knock them down. A search is under way at the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. No one is allowed inside. There are masks, weapons," Panaiotidi wrote on her Facebook page.