On Wednesday, early in the morning in the Rivne region in an accident killed five people - four political scientists and one journalist, all citizens of Ukraine. As reported by the 112 television station referring to the press service of the National Police of the region, a 33-year-old resident of Donetsk and three residents of the capital, 31, 34 and 33, died on the road "Kiev-Kovel-Yagodin" as a result of the collision of the Opel car with a truck at the scene of the accident. 40 years. The life of the fifth participant in the accident, a 26-year-old passenger, was rescued by the doctors, but he died from the injuries in the intensive care unit ".

It is not known who was behind the wheel of the lorry and what injuries the driver received as a result of the accident. Meanwhile, judging by the photos posted on the web, a DAF truck with a trailer capsized outside the highway.

Later, on his Facebook page, political expert Yury Romanenko wrote that among the dead were well-known journalist Vladimir Karagyaur, political scientists Alexander Maslak, Alexei Kurinnoy and Alexander Nikanorov, as well as a public activist and decentralization specialist Sergei Popov, who previously held the post of head of the Donetsk military civil administration (the body acting on the part of Donbass controlled by Kiev).

"The preliminary version of the accident - a skid of a car at high speed on a wet road with a transfer to the oncoming lane," added Romanenko.

On the fact of the incident, a pre-trial investigation is underway, the press service of the regional headquarter of the National Police.

According to the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Anton Gerashchenko, political scientists were returning home from Warsaw, where they took part in an international conference on the "hybrid war". At the wheel of the car Karagyaur spent all night. "Judging by the preliminary findings of the investigation, he either dozed off or failed to manage on the wet road, because of what the car took to the counter, which led to a head-on collision with the timber carrier. The attempt of the logging truck driver to evade the collision was unsuccessful, "wrote Gerashchenko.

It is known that one of the dead, but in the name of Kurinnoy, in early August this year made an ambiguous statement about the death in an accident of an ex-deputy of the Rada from the Party of Regions Irina Berezhnoy, which many regarded as gloating.. RU.

(Recall, then, in his public comments, he admitted that he had no empathy for the death of Berezhnoy - "well, zhodnisinkoi" - Ed..

The publication notes that the last major accident involving Ukrainian journalists occurred near Lviv on August 31. The office car Daewoo Lanos of the local television channel NTA also flew at high speed into the reinforced concrete bridge support. As a result of a strong blow, the 28-year-old driver died on the spot, and three journalists in the car were seriously injured and hospitalized.