In Kharkov, an “ATO” volunteer blew himself up with his own grenade while drunk

Today, January 5, in Kharkov at night on Petra Svinarenko Street in an apartment on the third floor of a high-rise building, an ATO volunteer, the head of a local boarding house for the elderly, was blown up by a grenade, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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According to the First Deputy Head of the National Police, Vyacheslav Abroskin, a 38-year-old man, while intoxicated, released an RGD-5 grenade onto the floor, which exploded under him.

"The young man died. It was only by a miracle that his wife and two young children, who were in the next room at the time, were not injured," Abroskin wrote on Facebook.

According to preliminary data from specialists from the police explosives department, the explosion occurred due to careless handling of ammunition. Criminal proceedings have been opened under Part 1 of Art. 115 (premeditated murder) and Part 1 of Art. 263 (illegal handling of weapons, ammunition and explosive devices) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.