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According to the police, 14 residents of Dnipro were detained on suspicion of an attack on a minibus with members of the organization Patriots – For Life, the People’s Deputy of the Opposition Platform – For Life Ilya Kiva. In addition, law enforcement officials established that 35 other people from Kharkov, Dnipro and Poltava were involved in the crime.
As a result of an attack on a minibus with members of the Patriots – For Life organization, the People’s Deputy of the Opposition Platform – For Life Ilya Kiva was injured four times. 14 people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the crime. This was announced in a briefing on August 28 by the head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kharkov region, Valery Sokurenko.
Police discovered that the incident occurred on August 27 at around 7:10 p.m. near the city of Lyubotin, Kharkiv region. A group of people with a Mitsubishi car blocked the movement of a Mercedes minibus, in which there were 20 people, and forced it to stop. After that, a group of people from Mitsubishi came out, who cut the tires, smashed the glass of the minibus with stones and shot its passengers with traumatic weapons.
“As a result of the incident, four victims were taken to hospital. Doctors diagnosed a 35-year-old Kharkov resident with a concussion, men aged 52 and 38 had a gunshot wound to the shoulder, a 36-year-old victim received a gunshot wound to the leg, “police said.
That same night, law enforcement officers detained 14 suspects in the attack, who are Dnipro residents between 18 and 33 years old. They were informed of suspicions under Part 4 of art. 296 (vandalism) and part 2 of art. 15, p 1, 7, 12 h.2 Art. 115 (attempted murder of two or more people with hooligan motives, committed by prior conspiracy of a group of people) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
According to the police, 35 other people from Kharkov, Dnipro and Poltava were also involved in the attack. “At the moment, five of them have been handed over to the investigating authorities of the Kharkiv region for explanations. We already have detailed information about the cars in which these people moved, now we are working on their connections, circle of acquaintances and occupation, “said department head Valery Sokurenko.
The police intend to request the arrest of the suspects. The penalties for the announced suspicions range from 15 years in prison to life imprisonment.
On August 27, Kiva said that a bus with members of the Patriots For Life organization had been shot on the Kiev-Kharkov highway. He affirmed about the dead and the kidnapped person, and then he refuted his words about the victims, specifying that we are talking about four victims. According to the people’s deputy, the attackers were members of the “National Corps” and the “Azov” regiment.
Police denied information about the kidnapping and said two members of the Patriots For Life organization were injured as a result of the attack.
The National Corps declared that neither they nor the Azov regiment had anything to do with the bombing of the bus and asked the police to arrest Kiva himself for “participating in the organization of a terrorist attack on the Kiev-Kharkov highway.”
Shortly after the incident, 14 attackers were arrested in the Krasnogradskiy district of the Kharkov region.
This is the second incident in a week involving members of this organization. On August 25, in the center of Kiev, on Druzhby Narodov Boulevard, on August 25, they and the activists of the “National Corps” had a conflict with the shooting.
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