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An armed policeman detained an “unstable” armed man who took several bus passengers in Ukraine hostage and held them for more than 12 hours.
According to independent.co.uk, the hijacker agreed to release the bus passengers as hostages after 15 minutes. During the conversation with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the deputy director of the V. Zelensky administration told reporters.
The attacker ordered Zelensky to post a video on his Facebook page in which the president urges the Ukrainian people to watch a 2005 documentary, Earthlings, about the human exploitation of animals. In the movie, the role of the narrator is played by actor Joaquin Phoenix.
A few minutes after the video was released in Lutsk, western Ukraine, an assailant who took the passengers hostage got out of the bus and turned himself in to police officers.
The 13 released hostages are not injured, authorities said.
After eliminating the hostages, V. Zelensky released the next recording, which asked for a documentary to be seen. In it, the President praised the people who carried out the hostage release operation.
“Human life is the greatest value. We lost none. Now families can finally hug their loved ones who have spent all day in hell on the bus,” said the president.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov told reporters that the person who had taken the bus passengers hostage was “an unstable person who had developed his own world view and had invented revenge for him.”
“He had his own vision of justice and the value of human life,” said Avakov.
The Ukrainian media described the attacker as an animal rights activist who helped protect stray dogs.
After previous conversations with the country’s first deputy police chief, Eugene Koval, the man released three hostages, including a pregnant woman.
Police identified the attacker: Maxim Krivosh, a 44-year-old Ukrainian-born Ukrainian who reportedly spent a total of 10 years in prison for a variety of crimes, says Ukrainian Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko.
Although the siege of the bus ended without injury, the assailant shot out the bus window during a conversation with Koval and barely hit the deputy police chief.
During the liberation operation, the police had to block the center of Lutsk. At one point, the assailant began throwing explosives through the bus window and fired multiple shots at the police drone.
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