Kharkiv authorities have decided against holding rallies in the holidays

Kharkiv authorities have decided against holding rallies in public holidays from 1 to 9 may in connection with threat of acts of terrorism, the proper decision was taken at a meeting of the conciliation Committee of the Kharkiv city Executive Committee.

"The security service of Ukraine, Ministry of internal Affairs provided Us with data, according to which in are saboteurs, and during the holidays possible provocations and terrorist acts. We want to make it as a celebration for veterans on the 70th anniversary of the Victory, but we can't put the threat of people ", - quotes the press Service of the Kharkiv city Council Deputy mayor of Kharkiv Igor Terekhov.

The Deputy mayor has supplemented his words by the fact that in the planned number of city events on Victory Day, which agreed with the police.

The press Service explained that the Commission considered the application of public organizations that have plans to hold events may 1st-9th. The police tried to convince the Directors of these NGOs do not hold rallies and processions because of the danger of terrorist acts, but not all of them heeded the arguments of law enforcement officers.

in February in Kharkov during a March in support of the active participants of the Maidan was an explosion, the site took the life of 2 people, eleven were injured, two of them later died in hospital. A criminal case under paragraph " a terrorist act ". The security service of Ukraine detained people, according to one version relating to the terrorist attack.


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