As fighting continues to rage in eastern Ukraine the conflict carries on in less deadly ways far from the front, with Kyiv hit by a rash of hoax bomb alerts this week, the latest in the headquarters of Channel 5, a private news broadcaster that belongs to the president.
After four hours the television employees were allowed back in but police say the alert and others like it are designed to spread a feeling of insecurity and panic.
“Yesterday Channel 5 donated a jeep to a Ukrainian battalion that takes part in anti-terroristic operations in eastern Ukraine. And this morning we got this information about the bomb,” said chief editor Volodymyr Mzhelskiy.
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