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A speech in Ukraine's parliament sparked violence Tuesday, after other lawmakers took exception to a communist leader's speech that criticized the current government and Ukrainian nationalists who helped to oust the country's president earlier this year.

"You are today doing everything to intimidate people. You arrest people, start fighting people who have a different point of view," communist party leader Petro Symonenko said in Kiev, according to Euronews.

And with that, two members of the far-fight Svoboda party grabbed the party official at the front of the chamber. Others rose to Symonenko's defense, in a tense situation that culminated in lawmakers wrestling and throwing punches at one another.