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| One killed, three injured incl MP, in explosion in Kiev - officials (PHOTOS) | One killed, three injured incl MP, in explosion in Kiev - officials (PHOTOS) |
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| One man was killed and three others injured in a blast in central Kiev, according to Ukraine's Interior Ministry. An MP and his driver are among the victims, according to the official’s Facebook page. | One man was killed and three others injured in a blast in central Kiev, according to Ukraine's Interior Ministry. An MP and his driver are among the victims, according to the official’s Facebook page. |
| Ukrainian MP Igor Mosiychuk has been injured in an explosion near the TV Espresso HQ in Kiev, according to the TV station and the MP’s press service. | Ukrainian MP Igor Mosiychuk has been injured in an explosion near the TV Espresso HQ in Kiev, according to the TV station and the MP’s press service. |
| “Igor Mosiychuk is currently in hospital. The operation is ongoing. His condition is not life-threatening," Mosiychuk's press service said on Facebook. | “Igor Mosiychuk is currently in hospital. The operation is ongoing. His condition is not life-threatening," Mosiychuk's press service said on Facebook. |
| According to an interior ministry Facebook post, three more people were injured, while one of them died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. | According to an interior ministry Facebook post, three more people were injured, while one of them died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. |
| The interior minister’s advisor, Zoryan Shkiryak, said political analyst Vitaliy Byala was also injured in the blast. | The interior minister’s advisor, Zoryan Shkiryak, said political analyst Vitaliy Byala was also injured in the blast. |
| “Both have now been taken to hospital quickly and are under the care of doctors,” Shkiryak stated in a Facebook post, adding that investigators were working the scene. | “Both have now been taken to hospital quickly and are under the care of doctors,” Shkiryak stated in a Facebook post, adding that investigators were working the scene. |
| The man who died in hospital was a bodyguard and aid to Mosiychuk, fellow MP Dmitri Linko said on Facebook. | The man who died in hospital was a bodyguard and aid to Mosiychuk, fellow MP Dmitri Linko said on Facebook. |
| While the explosion was described by some officials as a “car blast,” photos from the scene suggest that it was a motorcycle parked near the car which blew up. | While the explosion was described by some officials as a “car blast,” photos from the scene suggest that it was a motorcycle parked near the car which blew up. |
| Mosiychuk, a notorious Ukrainian politician with long standing and strong ties to the Ukrainian neo-Nazi movement has openly expressed his extreme-right views. While being a local MP in the Kiev region, he was suspected of conspiring to plant a bomb on a monument of Vladimir Lenin in 2011. The politician met the Maidan events of early 2014 in detention, and was eventually sentenced to 6 years in prison over the preparation of the terrorist act. | |
| Following the Euromaidan demonstrations and subsequent government coup , Mosiychuk was released by the newly appointed Kiev officials and cleared of all charges as a “political prisoner.” Upon his release, Mosiychuk took an active part in the unrest in eastern Ukraine, becoming a deputy commander of the notorious Azov paramilitary battalion. The militant group is well known for following Nazi ideology and has been condemned by the UN and Amnesty International. | |
| Mosiychuk also threatened to dispatch neo-Nazi militants to Crimea in an effort to scupper the independence referendum there. |