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Ukrainian far-right leader Dmytro Yarosh said on Saturday he would run for president and launched a scathing attack on the new government, two weeks after he helped bring it to power through street protests.

Yarosh's ultra-nationalist views make him a rank outsider in the May 25 election, but his remarks signaled a growing split with other leaders of the protest movement that toppled Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovich as president on Feb 22.---

"I am running for president," Yarosh told a news conference, confirming a decision by Right Sector's leadership body.

He then went on to criticize the leaders in the new government who were united with him in support of the protests against Yanukovich, in which Right Sector had increasingly set the agenda this year.

"For now we see a lack of professionalism, government appointments are increasingly surprising and there is a gradual loss of public confidence," Yarosh said.

Yarosh was given the role of deputy secretary of the Security and Defence Council, the country's top security body, under the government of Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk that took shape after Yanukovich's overthrow.

But he complained the government had not released details about how at least 95 people were killed in clashes with police or by snipers during the protests, saying it was surprising that none of "the criminals who killed our heroes" had been convicted.

"The government must wipe out corruption, above all in the law enforcement agencies and judicial bodies. The government has to start systemic reforms," he said. "Only deeds, not words, will turn Ukraine into a state where people want to live and where separatists are thrown out of every town."

A Ukrainian border patrol plane came under fire while flying at about 1,000 metres (3000 feet) near the administrative border with Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday, the border guards said.

No one was hurt when gunmen opened fire on the unarmed aircraft, a spokesman said. The Diamond light aircraft was flying three crew on an observation mission, the spokesman said.

The OSCE's media freedom representative Dunja Mijatovic, who visited Crimea this week and met with local journalists here, on Saturday condemned the latest attacks on journalists.
"Extreme censorship, shutting down media outlets and press hubs and attacks and intimidation of journalists must stop immediately," she said in a statement.
She also raised concerns about the cutting of terrestrial television signals of six Ukrainian channels in Crimea, which were replaced this week with Russian broadcasts.
"In times of crisis people must have unimpeded access to a plurality of sources, otherwise they can be subjected to the worst kind of propaganda," Mijatovic said.

Poland has closed its consulate in Crimea because of harassment of its staff.