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| Blast hits US embassy grounds in Ukrainian capital, no casualties – police | Blast hits US embassy grounds in Ukrainian capital, no casualties – police |
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| An unknown assailant threw an explosive device into the US diplomatic mission's premises in Kiev on Thursday night, police reported, adding that no one was hurt. Police said they are treating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack. | An unknown assailant threw an explosive device into the US diplomatic mission's premises in Kiev on Thursday night, police reported, adding that no one was hurt. Police said they are treating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack. |
| The explosion took place at 12:05am local time on Thursday, according to a Kiev police statement. Police immediately dispatched a rapid response unit to the embassy premises. | The explosion took place at 12:05am local time on Thursday, according to a Kiev police statement. Police immediately dispatched a rapid response unit to the embassy premises. |
| An investigation has been launched into a suspected terrorist attack. There are no immediate reports on damages inflicted to the embassy premises. | An investigation has been launched into a suspected terrorist attack. There are no immediate reports on damages inflicted to the embassy premises. |
| Incidents involving explosive devices happen fairly often in modern Ukraine, which suffers from an influx of illegal weapons. On Monday morning a grenade blast killed a man and seriously injured a woman in Vyshgorod, a town some 8km north of Kiev. | |
| On the night of May 28, a grenade was tossed at the property of a local businessman in the village of Sifievskaya Boshchagovka near the capital. Luckily, the blast didn’t hurt anyone and only shattered a window in the house. | |
| A week before that a grenade was thrown at night into the office of a Ukrainian nationalist organization in Kiev. And on the night of May 1, an explosive device detonated near a school in Les Kurbas Street in the capital. | |
| Ukrainian police usually investigate such incidents as acts of hooliganism. | |
| Diplomatic missions have come under fire in Ukraine too. In March, the Polish consulate in the western city of Lutsk was heavily damaged by an explosion after an anti-tank rocket launcher was used to attack it overnight. |