Man takes hostage in Kyiv bank, threatens to detonate bomb
03 August 2020 |
2:15 pm
It is the third hostage situation in the country in less than three weeks. The suspect's demands were not immediately clear, with Ukraine's interior minister labeling the man mentally unstable and a "terrorist."
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