The heavily armed police forced entry into the offices of the Fatherland Party, and then left taking computers with them.
Led by former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, the party is the largest and most vocal in it's opposition to President Viktor Yanukovych.
Other groups of police cleared out small protest camps, while more yet lined up near the bigger camps.
Protests have been going for most of a month and Sunday saw the biggest yet, with over one hundred thousand in the capital city.
The people are demanding that Yanukovych resign.
He angered the public when backed out of signing a trade agreement with the European Union, and instead announced that he would seek closer ties with Russia.
Many Ukrainians worry that Yanukovych is taking their country back under Russian influence and fear a loss of their independence from their former Soviet masters.
The protests have gained steam since three former presidents backed them, last week.
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