A Ukrainian village councilor caught on video throwing grenades into a crowd, wounding 26 people, the country’s national police said on Friday. The incident took place on Friday morning at the headquarters of the Keretsky village council in the mountainous Zagarpattia region of western Ukraine.
A Video posted by police on Facebook A man dressed in black was shown entering the council meeting during the heated debate. The faces of the person and others in the meeting are blurred in the clip.
National Police of Ukraine
The man then pulled three grenades from his pockets, released the safety pins and threw them to the ground, triggering explosions as the crowd screamed.
“As a result, 26 people were injured, six of them in critical condition,” a police statement said, adding that doctors were trying to revive the person who threw the grenade.
The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) has launched a terror investigation, police said. The police have also started investigations into the illegal handling of weapons.
The video released by the police comes from a live video stream of the meeting provided by the city council on social media, and shows the man walking through the discussion for more than 1.5 hours and briefly standing at the door before taking grenades from his pockets. .
It showed chaos inside the small room, which was dark and filled with smoke, and the wounded lay on the floor.
Authorities have not named the man, but Ukrainian Pravda newspaper reported He was identified as Serhiy Patrin, a member of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s People’s Sevak Party.
A woman watching a live broadcast of the council session reported the explosion to authorities, Ukrainian Pravda reported.
