In the center of Kiev in the area of ??Bessarabskaya Square, between the streets of Basseynaya and Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya, on Friday, September 8, a Toyota Camry. As reported by the TV channel "112. Ukraine ", in the cabin were, presumably three people.
Witnesses argue that the rescuers who arrived operatively on the scene were able to get a woman out of the car (according to some reports, her leg was torn off), which was taken away by an ambulance.
In addition, judging by the video footage of the television channel, the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Measures found in the cabin the body of a man. It should be noted that the car is almost completely destroyed. Another machine was also damaged.
Arrived in the area of ??emergency, an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiryak said that there was a child in the explosion zone, but he did not suffer. "With the child everything is in order, as far as I was informed. On the spot is (deputy head of the National Police - ed.. ) Vyacheslav Abroskin, "- said Shkiryak.
A couple of hours later, the TV channel reported that a Chechen driver was in the car, who was serving in the zone of the so-called "ATO" in Donbass. "He was a Chechen. Or a Russian citizen - I do not know. The car was on Georgian numbers. He was ours, he spoke for Ukraine. I think there is a trace from Russia, "a certain witness who introduced himself as a friend of the deceased.
According to him, the deceased is called Timur Makhauri, he fought in the battalion named after Sheikh Mansur.
The adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anton Gerashchenko, already called the Friday bombing a terrorist act and told about the identity of the deceased.
"Today, near the Bessarabian market, there was a terrorist act that killed a Georgian citizen Timur Makhauri," wrote Gerashchenko on his Facebook page.
According to him, the police will launch criminal proceedings under Article 115 of the Criminal Code "Intentional Homicide Committed by a Way Harmful to the Life of Others", Gerashchenko notes that according to media reports, Makhauri "was a very outstanding personality".
Three years ago this citizen was detained by the Turkish authorities on suspicion of murdering five Chechens who hid in this country from the Russian justice.
"The Turkish authorities and the press then accused him of working for the Kremlin, and Turkish media referring to the prosecutor Ahmet Demirhuyuk reported that Makhauri is directly involved in the liquidation of Shamil Basayev himself. "This prisoner (Makhauri) has prepared a truck, in the explosion of which in July 2006 Basayev died. Although, there are suggestions that Makhauri might not have known that the truck with weapons sent to Basayev was sent by the Chekists with explosives, "the media wrote," the post of Gerashchenko.
According to the minister's adviser, other names of Makhauri are Ruslan Papakcoria and Ali Dabuyev.
Director of the Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Artem Shevchenko on the evening of Friday confirmed the identity of the deceased, noting that the seriously injured passenger is unknown.
"According to preliminary signs, an explosive device built in the car. The victim is a citizen of Georgia. His identity is established, but for the purposes of the investigation, I would not want to disclose it, "he said..
However, at the request of journalists Shevchenko still named the name of the deceased.
"It is known that this person, known in criminal circles, his name is Timur Makhauri. He had stable ties with various Chechen circles. He was also detained and brought to justice this year in Ukraine, but concluded a deal with the investigation and received a suspended sentence for a crime. He was accused, if I'm not mistaken, for illegal possession of weapons.
In court, in accordance with the agreement with the investigation, pleaded guilty, received 5 years with 3 years of deferment. Then with him was seized a certificate in which it was written that he was a fighter of the battalion of Sheikh Mansur. "- quotes Shevchenko's words" 112 ".
Let us recall that in June 2017. In the center of Kiev, an attempt was made on Adam Osmayev detained in 2014. in Odessa for the preparation of the terrorist attack against the Russian president and released by the Maydan authority in 2014, and his wife Amin Okuev, who fought in the Donbass.