Anti-terrorist operation started in Kharkiv: four participants on the explosion detained

Due to the terrorist act in Kharkiv which killed one police officer and one activist, and wounded five police officers and four activists, the highest level of terrorist threat was introduced in the city and the anti-terrorist operation began.

This was announced by the NSDC secretary Oleksandr Turchynov, Censor.NET reports citng the NSDC press service.

According to Turchynov, a controlled explosive device of directed action has been used during a peaceful march commemorating those killed in Euromaidan a year ago.

The NSDC secretary announced that the Security Service of Ukraine together with the Interior Ministry launched the anti-terrorist operation, "in the course of which four participants of the explosion were detained, and weapons, including a grenade launcher, were seized."

"The anti-terrorist operation goes on," he said adding that, according to SBU information, the group that committed the terrorist act was trained in Belgorod, Russia. "This is another evidence that the terrorist campaign conducted in Ukraine has the same commissioners and organizers as the one in the east of our country," the NSDC secretary noted.