ROSTOV-ON-DON. May 16 (Interfax) - One Ukrainian and two Russian citizens have been detained in the Zaporozhye region on suspicion of a carrying out a terror attack which killed a Melitopol deputy police chief, the Russian Interior Ministry's department in the Kherson region said in a statement.
"Based on information from [our] operations, officers from the Russian Interior Ministry's department in the Kherson region and their colleagues from the FSB regional branch identified and detained a Ukrainian citizen and two Russian citizens who perpetrated a terror attack on a deputy chief of the Russian Interior Ministry's Melitopol department on orders from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The police officer died of his injuries," the statement said.
Preliminary information indicates that the suspects were also plotting attacks on other senior regional police officers and members of the Zaporozhye regional administration. "SBU officers coordinated their activity and supplied the detainees with explosives," it said.
A criminal case has been opened on counts of terrorism. The police are looking into every episode of illegal activity engaged in by the suspects.