DHAKA: Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has fired Oleksandr Popov as head of the Kiev City Administration and appointed parliamentarian Volodymyr Makeyenko of the Party of Regions in his stead, in line with decrees published on the presidential website on Saturday.

Before the appointment, Makeyenko headed the Verkhovna Rada committee on the rules of procedure, parliamentary ethics, and parliamentary functions.

Popov was suspended as the Kiev City Administration head after the special police task force Berkut dispersed an opposition rally on Independence Square in Kiev on November 30, 2013.

In the Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital, where the mass opposition rally takes place, three law enforcement officers were captured on Friday evening.

According to Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, ‘the so-called security on Independence Square attacked three police officers who were on duty’.

One of them was stabbed.

It is reported that the captured policemen were held in the building of the Kiev City State Administration, which is under the control of the opposition.

The wounded policeman has already been released and hospitalized. The fate of the other two policemen is still unknown, reported MIA, says The Voice of Russia.

BDST: 1658 HRS, JAN 25, 2014