Zelenskyy: Version of terrorist attack in Mykolaiv, where seven police officers injured, being checked
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the incident in Mykolaiv, where seven police officers were injured in an explosion at a defunct gas station, is being investigated as a terrorist attack.
“I have just received the first reports from law enforcement officials regarding the explosion in Mykolaiv. National Police officers were injured – seven people wounded, two of them in serious condition. They are receiving the necessary assistance. All circumstances are being clarified, including the possibility of a terrorist attack,” Zelenskyy said on X Monday.
According to the president, he instructed the National Police and the Security Service to inform the public of the necessary details.
As reported, citing the head of the National Police of Ukraine, Ivan Vyhovsky, seven patrol police officers were injured in an explosion at a defunct gas station in Mykolaiv.
"Today at 6:10 p.m. in Mykolaiv, an explosion occurred at a defunct gas station. Seven patrol police officers who had arrived for their shift and parked their cars there were injured. Two of them are in serious condition. Doctors are fighting for their lives," he wrote on his Facebook page.
He recalled that a terrorist attack against police officers occurred in Lviv on Saturday.
"This is no coincidence. The enemy is deliberately trying to kill Ukrainian police officers, who protect the people and the state every day. We view these events as a targeted attack on the law enforcement system and a destabilization of the situation within the country," Vyhovsky added.
