ONE Ukrainian police officer was injured and several far-right thugs arrested yesterday at a parliament rally against implementing the Minsk peace deal.

MP Semen Semenchenko, a former leader of the volunteer Donbass Battalion, led the nationalist protest demanding legislation that would prevent the February 2015 Minsk Protocol being implemented.

The few-dozen protesters burnt a Russian flag and demanded parliament pass a “reintegration” bill declaring Moscow the “aggressor.”

Pro-peace Opposition Bloc MP Yuriy Boyko said the proposal “contradicts all international agreements and treaties” and Kiev was obliged to end the conflict under the Minsk deal.

After the 2014 Euromaidan coup, Mr Semenchenko’s fighters, along with the neonazi Azov and Aidar battalions, was one of the volunteer militia absorbed into the Ukrainian army to fight anti-fascist forces in the eastern Donbass region.

They reportedly form the backbone of the Ukrainian offensive against Donetsk and Lugansk, and have sabotaged peace efforts.