Kiev car bomb kills colonel in Ukrainian military intelligence
A Ukrainian serviceman was killed and another person was wounded in a car bomb explosion in the centre of Kiev on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, describing the incident as a “terrorist act.”
UPDATE: A Ukrainian serviceman killed by a car bomb in Kiev on Tuesday was a colonel for Ukraine’s military intelligence, the defence ministry said in a statement.
“As a result of (the explosion) a member of the defence ministry’s main intelligence department, Colonel Maksim Shapoval, was killed,” it said.
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Police said an explosive device in the vehicle blew up at 0516 GMT while the car was moving, killing the driver.
According to reports, the service man was part a colonel with the military intelligence.
“Since he was an acting serviceman, the prosecutor’s office will determine the investigative procedure of this criminal act, which is currently registered as a ‘terrorist act,'” interior ministry spokesman Artem Shevchenko told journalists.
He did not give further details.
Online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda said the serviceman, Maxim Shapoval, was a high-ranking official involved in military intelligence.
The defence ministry was not immediately available for comment.
Since fighting with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine broke out in 2014, the number of incidents involving explosives outside the conflict zone has increased, but car bombs are relatively rare.
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The last major incident in Kiev occurred last July, when a prominent investigative journalist, Pavel Sheremet, was killed when an explosive device detonated in his car.
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