Ukraine's Interior Ministry has informed that three of four people detained as suspects in the organization of an explosion in a Zaporizhia church have been formally charged.
"We checked three theories. One of them has been proved," Deputy Interior Minister Leonid Zyma said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
At the same time, he refused to give details of the proved version, and only answered that it had "a religious motive."
"Yes, there was motive which made these people to organize this explosion," the deputy minister said.
Zyma noted that the investigation had proved that the crime was intentional, but the organizers had not intended to kill anyone.
"We proved it was done intentionally, but they did not expect to kill a woman and injure people. That was not attempted murder," he said. According to the deputy minister, the accused did not expect the explosion would have such consequences.
Neither did Zyma say whether any of the detained people had admitted their guilt.
The deputy minister denied reports that the accused had undergone interrogation without lawyers.
"The information that the people were interrogated without lawyers is false. Each of them was interrogated on this case in their lawyers’ presence," Zyma said.
The deputy minister noted that both the Interior Ministry and the prosecutor’s office were overseeing the investigation.
