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One of the four suspected executors of notorious bombings in the Ukrainian cities of Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia is "a professional political analyst" and a former parliamentary election campaign aide for a candidate nominated by the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, the Security Service of Ukraine said on Thursday.

The suspect “has taken part in various political campaigns” and
worked in the campaign committee of BYT candidate Mykhailo Sokolov in
the run-up to the last parliamentary elections, Ivan Derevyanko, the
Security Service’s chief investigator, told a press conference in Kyiv.

Derevyanko said Sokolov had been questioned as a witness and that it
had turned out that one of the letters with threats and demands sent out
by the suspected attackers had been written in the office of Sokolov,
who had by then been elected to parliament.

All the suspects are in their mid-thirties, according to Derevyanko. One of them worked as a computer programmer.

Earlier on Thursday, the Security Service announced it had finished
its investigation into the bombings in the three cities, which the
service qualifies as terrorist attacks.