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Former Kharkiv mayor and presidential candidate Mykhailo Dobkin of the Party of Regions, said the Ukrainian Interior Ministry could stand behind the recent attempt on the life of his friend, Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes.

“I have the impression that the idea of committing a contract murder
on Kernes could have been generated at the Interior Ministry’s main
office,” Dobkin said at a press conference in Kharkiv on Tuesday.

He criticized Deputy Interior Minister Serhiy Yarovy’s suggestion
that federalization supporters could have plotted the attempt on
Kernes’s life. “You have failed to prevent the crime, so don’t engage in
profanation. Don’t say publicly that you have learnt something. First
conduct an inquiry, compare the facts and then say whose order it was,”
Dobkin said.

He said Kernes and acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov have disliked each other for a long time.

The Prosecutor General’s Office should take the investigation from the police and pass it to another agency, Dobkin said.