Public order and security

According to the police, about 20 people may be held hostage. The criminal does not make any demands.

“A citizen of one of the Central Asian republics… who was planning… to commit a terrorist act using incendiary devices in crowded places, was detained,” the message says.

An unauthorized protest action also took place in Saint Petersburg.

Protests in Minsk were accompanied by clashes with the militia.

A conspiratorial cell included six residents of the region from among citizens of one of the Central Asian countries and Russia.

Aleksandar Vulin stated that unrest is nothing but an attempt to seize power.

Kiev claims the need for “additional legal and political grounds for protecting the national interests of Ukraine in the conditions of armed aggression of the Russian Federation.”

This was announced by the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police of Ukraine.

In total, about 5 thousand people gathered in front of the National Assembly.

It is reported that the criminal intended to commit an armed attack on administrative buildings.

The Federal Security Service of Russia reported of the suppression of the activities of the Crimean cell of Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami.

Authorities took such measures after at least 30 people were injured as a result of gunfire, 5 of them died.

“We continue our own investigation in the wake of information that appeared in the media,” Suhail Shaheen said.

Two of them are suspected of violating the national security law.