“Police are calling the explosion in Kiev hooliganism”
Correspondent ID “” in the Ukraine — about the incident in the government quarter.
On Thursday afternoon, an unknown object exploded in the government quarter in Kyiv on the independence Day of Ukraine, two people were injured.
The Secretary of Council of national security and defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov does not exclude that the explosion could be a planned terrorist attack, local media reported. The correspondent of “Kommersant” publishing house in Kyiv Yanina Sokolovskaya told the details leading Natalia zhdanovoj.
What do we know about what happened? How likely is the version of the attack?
— 14.06 became aware of the explosion in the government quarter on the street Grushevskogo. Police said that the explosive device or firecracker, is unclear — was thrown from the car on the lawn on the slope in front of the government building.
The device worked, it has affected the woman and the man — the blow fell in the head, they suffered serious injuries and are now in hospital.
Suggests that if an explosive device was thrown on the pavement and not on a slope, then it would hit the lower torso. Unfortunately, the ambulance was coming for a very long time, victims had police and National guard soldiers, who were near the scene. The police treated at this stage the incident as hooliganism. It is stated that the opinion of Oleksandr Turchynov, Secretary of the national security and defense, it could be hooliganism, but the terrorist act is his personal assessment.
Have CIV on vulitsi Grushevskogo proluna of vybuch — polca PLU governmental quarter pic.twitter.com/1rot2BEPMq
— Hromadske.UA (@HromadskeUA) 24 Aug 2017
During the download an error has occurred.Earlier, the head of the security Service, Vasyl Hrytsak said that some Russian forces are preparing terrorist acts, and conduct other subversive activities in Kiev and aktiviziruyutsya independence Day of Ukraine.
And now we see that on the Day of independence of Ukraine a kind of firecracker is right opposite the building of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Apparently, this gave reason to Alexander Turchinov to make his statement. However, the police which speaks only of hooliganism.