in clashes in the capital Kiev, an MP says.
He was "in a stable condition" with concussion, Yuriy Polyachenko said.
Violence broke out between protesters and riot police on Friday when a court jailed three activists over an alleged terror plot.
The unrest took place amid ongoing protests at Ukraine's decision to pull out of a landmark deal with the EU.
Instead, President Viktor Yanukovych struck a deal with Russia in December, which has seen big cuts in the price of gas imports from Russia.
Moscow also supported Ukraine's finances with a $15bn purchase of government bonds.
The BBC's David Stern in Kiev says that while the ongoing protests have produced the largest demonstrations since the 2004 Orange Revolution, so far none of the protesters' main demands have been met.
'Footage of clashes'
Mr Lutsenko is the leader of the Third Ukrainian Republic opposition movement.
His party confirmed on Saturday that he had been placed in intensive care after suffering "closed-head injury,
concussion and hematomas".
Mr Lutsenko's wife Iryna said the former minister was attacked by baton-wielding police as he tried to break up the violence.
The clashes occurred outside a courthouse in Kiev, where a large crowd had gathered for the verdict in a trial against members of a far-right organisation.
Following the judgment, angry demonstrators blocked buses carrying police officers.
The situation escalated after protesters threw paint on the
windscreens and started rocking the vehicles, Local news reports showed footage of badly beaten protesters, including Mr Lutsenko.
The leading opposition figure was a prominent member of jailed former PM Yulia Tymoshenko's pro-Western
government.
He himself was jailed for embezzlement and abuse of office in 2010, but pardoned under EU pressure in April 2013.
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