All bomb alert messages at 10 Ukrainian airports the police received earlier were proved fake and arrived from the territory of a neighbor country, the communications department of the National Police has reported.
“On November 10, during the day, the police began receiving messages about bombs at airports in Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Rivne, Uzhgorod, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernivtsi… No explosive substances and objects were found. It was established that all anonymous calls came from a neighboring state,” the National Police said on Nov. 11.
In these airports, investigative and operational groups, explosive specialists, cynologists, officers of the SBU, Emergencies Service and doctors worked. People who were in the airport premises were evacuated.
According to the facts, criminal cases were opened in under Part 1 of Article 259 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (knowingly false report of a threat to the safety of citizens, destruction or impairment of property). The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to six years.
The report of the Department of Communications of the National Police of Ukraine does not indicate which neighboring state is involved.
