Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov said that the explosion near the building of the Cabinet could be a pre-planned terrorist act.

"We do not exclude that this is a planned terrorist attack, which tried to make sure that not everyone could enjoy the holiday on the Independence Day," he said in a commentary on the hromadske. "Operatives, the National Police and the Security Service. They understand the whole composition of the crime and now they are searching for those terrorists who did it, "Turchinov said..

He also noted that the explosion was one, although eyewitnesses speak of two explosions.

"At first there was one explosion, like a firecracker, and then a big explosion. We saw that one person was holding his head, his blood was flowing from his head and he was helping any person. Then we learned that it was a woman.

She was picked up by an ambulance. The police quickly arrived, and the ambulance in 10 minutes, "- said the witness Yaroslav.

Recall, on Thursday, August 24, in the center of Kiev in the area of ??the government quarter there was an explosion.

According to one of the eyewitnesses, the explosive device, as a result of the rupture of which on Grushevsky in Kiev the man and the woman were injured, was probably thrown from above by someone.

Source: HB.