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Police officers at the entrance to the territory of Kulikovo field during the mourning events dedicated to the anniversary of the tragic events of May 2, 2014. File photoDONETSK, May 2.Nationalists came every May 2 to Kulikovo field in Odessa with barbecue, in the event of brawls between nationalists and relatives of those killed in 2014, the authorities detained the latter, an eyewitness told RIA Novosti. In Odessa, after the change of power in Ukraine in 2014, anti-Maidan activists protest set up a tent camp on the Kulikovo field. On the afternoon of May 2, brawls began between anti-Maidan activists on the one hand and football ultras from Kharkov and Odessa, as well as Euromaidan participants, on the other. The fight ended with the destruction of the tent city and the arson of the House of Trade Unions, in which representatives of the «anti-Maidan» took refuge. 48 people became victims of the tragedy that day, more than 250 were injured. «Every second of May, sympathizers with the Maidan and Kyiv came quite calmly to Kulikovo field with barbecue. And if some kind of crush arose between them and those who came to commemorate the dead, — the authorities always had complaints against those who came to commemorate,” Marina, an eyewitness to the events, said. She noted that under Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Zelensky, nothing had changed regarding the May 2 tragedy. “There are still city authorities. They are loyal, but not to the dead Odessa residents and their relatives, but to those who destroyed them,» Marina added. International organizations have repeatedly pointed out to Kyiv the lack of progress in the investigation of the Odessa tragedy and demand that the Ukrainian authorities punish those responsible for the death of people. Meanwhile, the trial in the case is dragging on and the investigation has actually done nothing for eight years to clarify all the circumstances of the tragedy. . What sparked the civil war in Ukraine