The incident occurred in the village of Matveyevka, Volnyansky district. About one o'clock in the evening three in balaclavas broke into the house of a local farmer.

They tied the hosts and stole the safe. As the head of the communications department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Zaporizhzhya region Yekaterina Ludvik told, the criminals took out a safe from the house, according to the mistress of the house, they kept 500 thousand dollars, which the spouses had accumulated over 20 years of farming, and then disappeared in an unknown direction.

The police opened a criminal case on the fact of theft under the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine Robbery in large or especially large amounts.

According to villagers of the robbed farmer, he recently sold a rapeseed crop, and, perhaps, criminals learned about this deal.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in Lviv on Wednesday evening March 22, two unknown robbed a jewelry store. Men with disguised faces broke into the store in Gorodetska Street, smashed the window, took the jewels and disappeared into an unknown direction.