And now someone's tweeted a short video of the disorderly scenes in the Ukrainian parliament:
More violence reported in eastern Ukraine:
Ukraine said on March 3 that three of its servicemen were killed and nine wounded in the previous 24 hours in the country's east.
The casualties underscore the fragility of a two-week-old cease-fire between government forces and Russian-backed separatists in a conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people since April.
A military spokesman said that rebels shelled Ukrainian positions 22 times over the past day.
Meanwhile, separatists accused Ukrainian troops of firing mortar shells in the outskirts of Donetsk overnight.
On March 2, Kyiv said the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany agreed to send OSCE observers to areas of Ukraine where violations of the truce have been reported.
A German government spokesman said the leaders agreed that the OSCE should play a greater role as observers of the Minsk cease-fire agreement. (Reuters, Interfax)
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council:
Moscow is focusing its Nemtsov investigation on Ukraine links:
A pro-Kremlin newspaper reported on March 3 that investigators are "focusing on" on the possibility that Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov's killing was connected to the conflict in Ukraine.
Without citing specific sources, the daily Izvestia said investigators "are not ruling out that Nemtsov was killed on the orders of the Ukrainian special services."
It reported that that "the organizers of the crime could have been Chechen militants" it said have fought alongside government forces against Russian-backed separatists in the war in eastern Ukraine.
It quoted an unnamed law enforcement source as claiming the organizers were ethnic Chechen Adam Osmayev and his wife, Amina Okuyeva.
Osmayev was arrested in Ukraine in 2012, at Moscow's behest, on suspicion of plotting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin, but was released in November 2014.
Federal investigators have said a link to the Ukraine conflict is one of several lines of investigation they are pursuing, but they have not commented on the Izvestia report.
The report in Izvestia -- which has become a platform for anti-Western views -- was part of a growing number of Russian statements and Kremlin-allied media reports suggesting the West or Ukraine could have had Nemtsov killed.