Local authorities in Lviv region are taking “serious measures” to prevent acts of provocation on interethnic grounds, Head of Lviv Regional State Administration Oleh Syniutka has said.
“Provocation can happen anywhere – both in areas with few residents like Huta Peniatska (Huta Pieniacka) and in the Lviv-based General Consulate’s building, located almost in the center of the city. We’ve been taking very serious preventive measures. If it hadn’t been the case, we wouldn’t have stopped a bus with a group of people heading to stage a provocation at the border crossing in Mostysky district. After all, there wouldn’t have been a special operation whose goal was to detain people planning to block the route to Rava-Ruska near the village of Hriada,” Syniutka said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
He also said that the same people were behind the provocations in Huta Peniatska and attempts to block the highways with anti-Polish slogans, but he didn’t elaborate on details, referring to secrecy of the investigation.
According to the governor, the provocations not only failed, but also became proof for local residents that hybrid war is being waged not only in Donbas.
“It seems to be the other way round – our people have seen that the hybrid war is not only hostilities in Donbas, but also provocations in the west of our country, this is an attempt to drive a wedge, destabilize, stall progress,” Syniutka said.
