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A Ukrainian council member was knocked out cold during a heated meeting after two opposing factions came to blows.

Tempers flared and punches were thrown in the Kiev Regional Council on Tuesday, provoked by a discussion on the regional budget.

When the council chairwoman announced vote for the session's agenda, deputies from Piotr Poroshenko Block party walked onto the podium with the intention to disrupt it.

As the chairwoman tried to push one of them away, a deputy from Yulia Tymoshenko Block came to assist her and was hit in the face by a member of the rival faction.

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Paramedics, who arrived at the scene shortly after the brawl and rushed injured deputy to hospital who suffered concussion, broken jaw and nose.

It is not the first time when the Ukrainian deputies used a fist fight as a tool in political argument.

In November 2016 two deputies from rival factions engaged in a fist fight during a parliament meeting.

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In December 2015 a brawl broke up in the country's parliament - Verkhovna Rada - as an opposition MP tried to carry then PM Arseny Yatsenyuk away from the podium.

But Kiev are not alone in getting physical in the chamber.

There were two days of brawling in the Ugandan parliament over plans to amend the constitution to allow President Yoweri Museveni to stand in the next election.

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As lawmakers debated one of the country's most important bills, Uganda's parliament turned into an ultimate fighting ring.

Parliamentarians hurled chairs at each other and swung microphone stands like swords. Men were torn from the room by their blazers and women by their dresses. Some people wailed and cried.

That fight exposed the bitter rift between lawmakers who support President Yoweri Museveni’s efforts to extend his rule and those who oppose it. Museveni, 73, has been president for 31 years.