Ukraine’s parliamentary process degenerated into farce, and worse, on Friday with deputies from opposing parties engaging in a brawl.

Should you wish to watch it, here is footage. Warning: it may offend those with a sensitive disposition!

RFE/RL reports that opposition supporters were blocking the podium in protest against criminal proceedings that have been taken against Yulia Tymoshenko. In response, deputies from President Victor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions had to break into the chamber. When they did so, fighting ensued!

Various commentators have noted that there was a similar scene just a few months earlier. So, this is not an isolated incident. Should you wish to view that particular conflagration, then here it is.