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Saboteurs who prepared terrorist attack before president’s arrival detained in Sloviansk

Published July 9, 2014 at 10:50 am

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko visits the headquarters of anti-terrorist operation near Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast, and finalizes the plan of the military offensive actions of the Ukraine's army on July 8.

Photo by Anastasia Vlasova

Two subversive groups that were planning a terrorist attack have been detained before the arrival of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Sloviansk, presidential press secretary Sviatoslav Tseholko has said, citing the head of state.

“President Poroshenko: two subversive groups that intended to commit a terrorist attack were detected 40 minutes before my arrival in Sloviansk. They were detained,” Tseholko wrote on Twitter early on Wednesday, July 9.