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Two police officers have been injured in an explosion that authorities say was a “terrorist act” in the town of Bucha near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An explosion occurred on a residential street in the early hours of Monday. When police arrived at the site, a second blast took place, injuring two officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police arrested a 21-year-old local resident who they say was recruited online to carry out the two explosions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They did not share what platform the suspect had been been recruited on, but a security source told the BBC it had been done through the online game World of Tanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He says he just wanted to make some money and was promised 25,000 hryvnyas [\u00a3450; $570] for each blast,” the Kyiv Region Criminal Iinvestigations Directorate head, Andriy Kravchuk, told the media at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ukrainian security service SBU issued a statement calling the suspect “a Russian agent”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But police – who are working to establish who recruited the suspect – are not confirming any links to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They released footage of the suspect being questioned, in which he says he was blackmailed into planting the explosives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man said those he communicated with over the internet told him they knew where his mother was and could “see her from a drone”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Either you do what we tell you or something happens to your mum,” they allegedly told him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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