Two explosions twenty minutes apart outside police departments in Lviv wounded two police officers in the city on the morning of July 14, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has reported.
One of the police officers, a 24-year-old
lieutenant, is in a critical condition. The other wounded officer was a woman.
According to Ukrainian authorities, the
incidents are connected to the shootout in Mukacheve
where at least two members of the Right Sector nationalist paramilitary group
were killed two days earlier in clashes with police.
“The Interior Ministry connects these
blasts with the events in Zakarpatya (Oblast), which were organized to
destabilize the situation in the country,” the interior ministry said in a July
14 online statement.
Authorities are investigating the incidents
as terrorist acts, which carry a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
Police say the entrances to two police
stations were mined with grenades, according to preliminary information. The
safety clip of an RGD-5 grenade was found at one of the scenes.
Lviv police are on heightened alert while
the interior ministry promised to “give a decisive rebuke of such criminal
acts.”
Kyiv
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