Explosions kill police officer
A 23-year-old female police officer has been killed and 25 people injured in what Ukrainian officials have called a terror attack in the western city of Lviv.
Two homemade explosive devices detonated after police crews responded to a reported break-in shortly after midnight on Sunday, the National Police of Ukraine said. The devices were planted in waste bins, it added.
President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed "an individual suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack" had been detained. Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said she was a Ukrainian woman.
The police later said the 33-year-old suspect had made and planted the explosives on the "instruction" of an agent of Russia's special services. Police said the first blast occurred after a police car arrived at the scene of the reported break-in at a shop in the city centre.
"Later, when a second crew arrived, another explosion went off," it added.
Eleven people were admitted to hospital, six of whom were law enforcement officers in serious conditions.
On Wednesday February 25th, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the National Police of Ukraine announced they had formally charged an 18-year-old woman from Kharkiv who lured police officers to the site of the terrorist attack.