Head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center Vitaliy Shabunin will be offered security measures in connection with the discovery of grenades under the door of the apartments where his mother and mother-in-law live, the website of the National Police of Ukraine said on Dec. 31.
“Considering these events, security measures will be offered to Vitaliy Shabunin. If he agrees, the measures will be provided by the Kyiv police,” the message said.
The police said that the events were recorded in the evening of Dec. 30 in Rivne and in the morning of Dec. 31 in Kyiv. Police investigators of Rivne are conducting a pretrial investigation on the facts of death threats and hooliganism committed with the use of weapons. The legal qualification of the event in Kyiv will be provided after the inspection.
“Yesterday at about 9:30 p.m. a message was received from a 37-year-old resident of Rivne that there were explosive objects on the ground floor at the door of one of the apartments. There was no one in the apartment, except for the owner of the apartment, the mother of the head of the public organization. She and five other residents of the entrance were evacuated. At the scene, the police found an improvised explosive device based on two F-1 grenades at the door of the apartment. Employees of the explosives department of the regional police seized two bodies of F-1 grenades without means of detonation, they will be sent for examination,” the communication department of the National Police of Ukraine said on Dec. 31.
“On Dec. 31, at about 11 a.m., the police received a message that in Sviatoshynsky district of Kyiv, in a multi-storey residential building on the third floor, at the front door of an apartment for rent, two F-1 grenades were found fastened with tape. The owner of the apartment is the Vitaliy Shabunin’s mother-in-law […] A thorough examination of the scene is being carried out, the police are identifying possible witnesses and checking the surveillance cameras that could record the persons involved in this crime,” the National Police said.
As reported, the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center believes that his mother had an explosive device under the door. “If the device is really explosive [as the National Police said], then they were going to kill my mother. Obviously, this is such a ‘hello’ to me, and not to a 69-year-old woman who already sees almost nothing,” Shabunin wrote on Facebook.
