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Police negotiating with man threatening to bomb Kiev building

Ukrainian law enforcement officers are negotiating with a man threatening to detonate a hand grenade inside the cabinet building.

• August 4, 2021

Ukrainian law enforcement officers are negotiating with a man threatening to detonate a hand grenade inside the cabinet building and will take measures against him if he refused to surrender.

The interior affairs ministry said this on Wednesday.

“A special police operation is being carried out in Kiev,” said the ministry.

“Today, at around 10:00 a.m., an unidentified man entered the cabinet building and” pulled out an object resembling an explosive device from his pocket, threatening to detonate it.

“Negotiations with the man are ongoing. Law enforcement officers and rescuers are working on the spot,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior Affairs wrote on Facebook. “If the man refuses to stop the offence voluntarily, police measures prescribed by the law will be taken against him,’’

(Sputnik/NAN)

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