An incident where a grenade was thrown at a group of Ukrainian parliamentarians outside a hotel in Kyiv late on Dec. 24 demonstrates an increased threat of terrorism, and is attempt to destabilize situation inside the country.
“An attempt on life of Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Chairman and People’s Front Party member, Andriy Parubiy, is evidence of the growing terrorist threat and the attempts to destabilize the situation inside the country,” Turchynov’s spokesman Hanna Vakhotska said.
According to the NSDC secretary, “aggressors constantly breach agreements on ceasefire, every day they make attempts, but they fail to burst through the defense of our Armed Forces in the east, that’s why they made up their mind and now push a cruel terrorist war to all the regions of the country.”
She said that Turchynov urged the country’s security services to block possible penetration of the terrorist groups from the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.
As reported, an unknown man hurled a grenade in the direction of a group of Ukrainian parliamentarians outside a hotel in Kyiv late on Wednesday, the Kyiv department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported on Dec. 25.
As police chased the suspect, he threw another grenade at officers and escaped, read the report. One policeman was injured.
It was later reported that Andriy Parubiy was amongst the group of MPs.
A criminal investigation has been opened on a count of hooliganism (Part 4 of Article 296 of the Ukrainian Penal Code).
Criminologists are working to establish the type of the grenade used in the incident. As Kyiv police preliminarily reported that it was a flash bang grenade, the second one was a grenade similar to F1 (fragmentation) grenade.
