The standoff between Right Sector and the authorities over the status of the nationalist group’s military unit reached a fever pitch on April 29 before the parties smoothed out some of their differences.

On April 28, Ukrainian army units surrounded the base of Right Sector’s Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, set up last year, on the border between Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk oblasts in what the right-wing group described as an attempt to disarm them. The authorities have long demanded that fighters of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, which has no legal status, either disarm or join the army.