KYIV. Aug 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Police have detained four people, including one woman, for their involvement in the August 20 explosions at Kyiv's Troyeshchyna market, said the head of the Interior Ministry's Kyiv branch, Oleksandr Mylenin.
"Among other evidence, their involvement in the explosions has been proved by the fact that bomb-making instructions downloaded from the Internet were confiscated from them. These instructions are intended for terrorists," he said.
The IDs of political movement members were confiscated from the detainees as well, Mylenin said. He added that two of them had IDs showing them as members of the Ukrainian People's Party.
"The blasts were staged with the aim of influencing the political situation and inciting social tensions," he said.
At the same time, Bohdan Sokolovsky, head of the Ukrainian People's Party secretariat, told Interfax that his party's members were not involved in the explosions at the Troyeshchyna market.
"Ukrainian People's Party members have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks or any preparations for them. I am confident of this. This is a clear provocation on the part of the police or somebody else," he said.
Sokolovsky confirmed that a female employee of the party's secretariat was arrested overnight to Friday. He declined to disclose her name, saying the party is trying to clarify the circumstances surrounding the incident.
One man was killed and another 11 injured in two explosions at the Troyeshchyna market on August 20.