Yesterday, at about 3 pm, a man called the Kiev police and said that he had mined the upper station of the capital's funicular. The operational duty officer passed the information to the police patrol and called the bomb technicians and the investigative and operational group to the scene.

As told in. Vitaly Chernyshenko, head of the Shevchenko police department, during the inspection of the funicular and the adjacent territory, the police did not find explosive objects, but "

“We found out that the top station of the funicular on Vladimirsky Spusk was“ mined ”by a 39-year-old local resident, he was detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The defendant was informed of suspicion of committing a crime under Part. 1 st. 259 (Deliberately false report about a threat to the safety of citizens, destruction or damage to property) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Shevchenkivskyi district court of the capital chose a preventive measure for the offender - detention with the possibility of bail in the amount of 168,000 hryvnia. The sanction of the article provides for imprisonment for up to six years, ”the National Police said..