According to Korniyenko, 10 people sought medical assistance after the beating, including 3 police officers.
Earlier, the Central Public Relations Service of the Luhansk Regional Internal Affairs Directorate claimed: "As for the dozens of injured journalists, in particular a correspondent of 'Ukrainian News,' as well as a correspondent of 'Luhanchane,' volunteers, OSCE coordinators, etc., who allegedly received injuries, none of them turned to the police."
Korniyenko said that 2 rallies were held in Luhansk — one in support of Yushchenko and one in support of Yanukovych.
According to Korniyenko, after the rallies ended, when their participants began to disperse, a group of thugs without identification marks drove up, pulled out short batons and began beating both participants of the rally in support of Yushchenko and Yanukovych's supporters and police officers.
The first deputy minister said that the beating lasted 1.5-2 minutes.
Korniyenko said that he spoke with the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate in Luhansk, and he assured him that the police were already on the trail of this group of thugs and that this crime would be solved.
On November 29, at a rally in Luhansk, a group of 30 people attacked a column of Yushchenko supporters, which also included journalists, and began beating them.
The attackers struck journalists on the head with hammers, kicked them and hit them with heavy objects.
A journalist of Ukrainian News was severely beaten.
The police opened a criminal case over this incident under Part 2 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism).
The Luhansk regional headquarters of the leader of the bloc of parties "Our Ukraine," Viktor Yushchenko, accuses the police of inaction during the beating of Yushchenko supporters and journalists by unidentified persons on November 29 in the center of Luhansk.