While documenting the fact of illegal logging, a 19-year-old resident of the Zolochevsky district shot at law enforcement officers and employees of the forestry enterprise with a hunting rifle. A policeman with a penetrating gunshot wound to his neck was hospitalized, the foresters after examining doctors were released home.

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" 40, the police received a message from the foresters that a cart (horse carriage - ed.. ) with logs, "

An investigative-operational group and officers of the response sector of the patrol police left for the scene. In a forest near the village of Leshnev, law enforcement officers found a cart with felled pines.

" 15, while documenting the fact of illegal logging, an unknown person fired shots from an unidentified firearm from the opposite bank of the river, wounding a 20-year-old police officer, as well as two foresters - a 34-year-old forest master and a 49-year-old forestry engineer, employees of the Brodovsky forestry enterprise. After that, the attacker escaped on a motorcycle, ”the police say..

Soon, law enforcement officers identified the attacker who shot at the policeman and foresters, this is a 19-year-old local resident. He was detained.

It was also established that the shots were fired from a hunting rifle..

Investigators from department No. 1 of the Zolochevsky district police department opened criminal proceedings under Art. 348 (Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer, a member of a public formation for the protection of public order and the state border, or a serviceman) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for punishment - imprisonment for a term of nine to fifteen years or life imprisonment.

Pre-trial investigation continues.