One national guard member has been killed and over 100 injured in violent protests outside Ukraine's parliament, the interior ministry said.
Clashes between nationalists and riot police erupted after MPs gave initial backing to reforms for more autonomy in the rebel-held east.
Some in the crowd lobbed what police said were live grenades at officers protecting parliament.
The reforms are part of a peace plan to end fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, said the violence was "a stab in the back".
Protesters led by the populist Radical Party and the ultra-nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party - who oppose any concession to the Russian-backed separatists - gathered outside parliament early on Monday.
After a rowdy debate, 265 MPs out of 450 backed the first reading of the decentralisation bill, granting more powers to areas of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Initially, there were only minor clashes but a BBC correspondent then heard small explosions followed by a much larger one - apparently from a grenade.
The demonstrators numbered barely more than a few dozen - mainly young men, most of them masked. They started the fights with police, but others supported them.
The protesters tried to pull the policemen away from their lines. They beat them and took their shields and helmets. Soon about a dozen young men were almost as well-equipped as the police.
Several times the atmosphere near the building seemed to calm down for a while, with clashes starting up again. And then the explosions began.
I saw some people - policemen and firemen - falling to the ground, and some running away from the site, limping. I saw pools of blood just near the wall of parliament.
The Ukrainian Interior Minister, Arsen Avakov, said nearly 30 individuals have been confined, including a Svoboda part who admitted to tossing a projectile.
Of the 122 individuals hospitalized, more than 11 were in a basic condition, the pastor included.
He severely censured Svoboda pioneer Oleh Tyahnybok, written work on Facebook that few touchy gadgets had been tossed by individuals wearing Svoboda T-shirts.
A policeman's leg was removed beneath the knee in the impact, Interfax Ukraine reported, while columnists at the scene were additionally reported harmed.
Just about 7,000 individuals have kicked the bucket following the contention in eastern Ukraine softened out up March 2014, after Russia's addition of the Ukrainian promontory of Crimea.
Pushing through more noteworthy self-sufficiency for the dissident held zones is a key piece of the Minsk peace bargain, initially marked in February.
Amid the mid year, battling between Ukrainian armed force powers and the radicals has heightened. In any case, the two sides concurred a week ago to stop the viciousness on 1 September, the day youngsters in the area come back to class.
Despite the fact that the quantity of truce infringement seems to have fallen as of late, OSCE screens have cautioned that neither one of the sides was regarding the détente.
Smoke bomb heaved at national monitor (31 August)
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Sparklers and petrol bombs were heaved at the lines of national patrols
National patrol being moved to wellbeing
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Partners helped take injured national patrols to wellbeing
Under the draft protected changes experiencing parliament, there will be an exceptional law covering nearby government in radical held zones.
Be that as it may, parliament speaker Volodymyr Hroysman was resolved that would not mean uncommon status for Donetsk and Luhansk, which revolt pioneers have pronounced republics.
In a national address late on Monday, President Poroshenko said if the recommendations had been voted down, Ukraine would have been abandoned "balanced against the attacker".
The changes must in any case pass a second perusing, which journalists say will be a difficult request for the Ukrainian pioneer,
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