Interior Minister Arsen Avakov warned terrorist acts are expected in the “next few days” involving “firearms and explosives” in Ukraine’s largest cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, as well as other, according to a public announcement he made on his Facebook page.
An identical announcement was published on the
Interior Ministry’s website at 10:45 p.m. Kyiv time.
Following meetings with Ukraine’s Security Service,
or SBU, Avakov said that in the -“upcoming days…we shall have to live through
several attempts by destructive, anti-Ukrainian forces to destabilize the situation
in the country.”
Based on the intelligence he received, Avakov said
he has placed law enforcement “structures in beefed-up security mode.”
He urged citizens to be “attentive in public
gathering places and immediately inform law enforcement bodies about people who
behave suspiciously or items, weapons, left-alone baggage,” and to call the
emergency number of 102.
Avakov added that there is
enough “strength, knowledge and responsibility.”
“I’m certain that each of us
has the responsibility, everyone in their place, won’t allow provocations and
attacks to destabilize the situation in the country and in the next few days we
will able to eliminate all threats from the anti-Ukrainian forces known to law
enforcement.”
Kyiv Post editor Mark Rachkevych can be reached
at [email protected].
