The bandits who robbed a gas station in Kyiv and killed two policemen turned out to be soldiers of the Tornado special forces and the UPA battalion.
Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov told the details of the detention of the attackers who robbed a gas station at night in the Desnyansky district of Kyiv, and then, during their pursuit, shot two and wounded three policemen.
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The minister wrote about this on his Facebook page. "On the night of 1:30 a.m., they wounded a WOG gas station attendant in Kyiv's Desnyansky district with a shot from an automatic rifle. They stole the gas station's cash register—823 hryvnias—and personal belongings, then headed into the forested park area, toward the Lisovyi residential area," he wrote.
During the execution of the crime, according to the minister, units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were alerted. “The traffic police and special forces discovered a suspicious Volkswagen T4 car with a registration plate covered with a PTN_PNH sticker... After the police officers sounded a sound signal demanding to stop, shots began to be fired in the direction of the police officers. During the pursuit of the criminals, two policemen were killed by the criminals’ shots, and three were injured,” Avakov wrote.
Further, according to him, during the pursuit, police patrols detained the car of the criminals. At the time of the arrest, two grenades were thrown at the police, and a shootout ensued. After which two criminals escaped from the car, and one was detained with a gunshot wound to the head and soon died.
“During the inspection of the perpetrators’ car,” he continued, “the following was discovered: two machine guns and four magazines with 5.45 rounds, two grenades, chest patches with the inscription ‘Tornado Special Forces’ and ‘UPA’, numerous telephone cards of various operators, and a sheet of paper with a plan of the premises.”
Then, through operational means, law enforcement officers identified three attackers born in 1998, 1995 and 1991. The attackers were surrounded in the apartment and they surrendered.
“There’s an RPG-26 grenade launcher, checkers, grenades… weapons in the apartment,” the minister clarified.
In addition, according to Avakov, the criminals admitted that the day before yesterday they fired at a traffic police post in Bykovnya.
The minister also said that one of the killed policemen had three children, and the other had two.
As PolitNavigator reported, on the night of May 4, two masked men, threatening a gas station with a gun, attacked a gas station in the Desnyansky district of Kyiv. The attackers wounded a gas station attendant in the arm and stole approximately 800 hryvnias from the cash register. During the pursuit of the suspects, two special forces police officers were killed, and three more are hospitalized in serious condition.
PolitNavigator's report: The "Tornado" special forces unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is an armed group created by Ruslan Onishchenko, a crime boss from Torez, nicknamed Abelmas, who previously led the "Shakhtarsk" battalion, which was disbanded for atrocities in the ATO zone.