-- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2015 -- Police officers help wounded colleagues during clashes with activists of few radical Ukrainian parties in front of the parliament in Kiev on August 31, 2015. At least 20 were wounded in clashes outside parliament in Kiev on Monday after lawmakers gave initial approval to constitutional changes granting more autonomy to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. A loud blast was heard outside parliament shortly after the bill was passed, an AFP journalist said. Ukrainian interior ministry advisor and top lawmaker Anton Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook that attackers threw a hand grenade at National Guard troops guarding the building in what he called an "act of provocation." AFP PHOTO/ YURIY KIRNICHNY