The home of a leading member of the far-right nationalist group Sich-C14, Serhiy Mazur, was attacked on Oct. 10, with a grenade being thrown into his flat near the town of Borispol in Kyiv Oblast.
Mazur was away, but his father was seriously wounded in the attack.
According to Mazur, the grenade was thrown into his room through a window. It exploded while stuck in some curtains. The windowpane broke and glass shards hit Mazur’s father, who is said to have lost a lot of blood.
“There was a powerful blast wave: doors were blown off their hinges, (my) father was injured. He lost a lot of blood and is in hospital now,” Mazur said, adding that his father is not in a critical condition.
“I should have been there instead of him, but I was away.”
Photographs posted on social media by Mazur show blood on furniture and floor of his home.
According to him, a ladder had been placed next to his window. Mazur attributed the attack to his civil activism, and said he thought it had been planned well in advance.
The police first classified the incident as a case of hooliganism, but later — after C14 organized a rally next to the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at noon — reclassified it as a case of attempted murder.
Mazur had recently been released from a two-month period of home arrest imposed on him on July 18 for hooliganism. In April, members of C14 allegedly under his instructions attacked a Roma camp in western Kyiv and burned their tents and property.
According to Ihor Lutsenko, a member of parliament from the Batkivshchyna party Mazur (who is his aide), was probably attacked because of his civil activism.
Lutsenko said he thought that the attack in particular was connected to Mazur’s involvement in a criminal case against Yuriy Krysin, the leader of a group of paid pro-government thugs who killed journalist Vyacheslav Veremiy during the EuroMaidan Revolution. In June, Krysin was sentenced to five years in prison.
Lutsenko said that “only yesterday was (Krysin) sent to prison,” adding that he believed the attack on Mazur was connected with this fact.
