The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has liquidated a terrorist group in Kyiv which planned to commit a terrorist attack in one of the capital's districts.
“Four members of the terror group were detained. They planned to blow up a house in Obolonsky district,” the SBU press center told Interfax-Ukraine on Sept. 3.
During the arrests, one of the detained resisted and used a grenade. According to preliminary reports there were no injuries.
The target was an apartment block on Mayorova Street in the Obolonsky district of Kyiv, where an Anti-Terrorist Operation volunteer center is located.
“The offenders actively resisted using arms and managed to blow up a RGD-5 grenade outside the reception. As a response, security officers used service guns and one of the terrorists in the leg. The devices which might have been used for committing terrorist attacks were seized. Thus, a real menace to lives and health of Kyivans was prevented,” said the report.
According to the press service, if the attack took place as planned, the organizer of the terrorist group would have fled for the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea.
The SBU has opened a criminal case under Article 258, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (terrorist act).
