“On July 2 at 3.30 p.m., 40 armed terrorists robbed the building of PrivatBank branch in Voroshylovsky district in Donetsk. Breaking the door of the safe vault, the militants stole over Hr 15 million,” he said at a briefing on July 3.
According to Lysenko, this money had been transferred by the Ukrainian government to pay pensions and salaries to social sector employees.