An explosion outside an apartment block late on
March 30 in Kyiv’s Pechersk district caused minor damage to a car reported to
be owned by lawmaker Volodymyr Parasyuk.
Ukrainian television’s Hromadske.tv station reported that an RGD-5 grenade had been thrown at Parasyuk’s car. Hromadske said damage had been caused to four cars outside the building. It also said eyewitness had reported several persons fleeing from the scene immediately after the blast.
At the scene of the blast, police said that Parasyuk was uninjured but was undergoing checks in an ambulance, where he was giving evidence to investigators, Hromadske reported.
A Kyiv Post reporter at the scene found no evidence of damage to any vehicles near the building, where Parasyuk rents an aprtment, apart from one flat tire on an SUV. The Kyiv Post could not confirm if the vehicle belonged to Parasyuk.
Lawmaker Parasyuk was elected to parliament in October 2014 as an independent, and later joined the inter-factional UKROP grouping.
He rose to prominence during the EuroMaidan mass public protests of the winter of 2013-2014, when he delivered a speech from the stage on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on Feb. 21, 2014 calling for the armed overthrown of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Yanukovych abandoned office and fled Kyiv the next day, Feb. 22, 2014.
Kyiv Post editor Euan MacDonald can be reached at [email protected]
