The shooting occurred in the center of Kiev, the wounded policeman, said on Thursday the press service of the main Department of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kiev.

before the chief of the Kiev Central Board Alexander Tereschuk said about the increase in crime in the capital with firearms that are trafficked from the zone of hostilities in the Donbass.

"During carrying out special operation on detention of illegal groups, which were held today (Thursday) in Holosiivskyi district of Kiev, offenders tried to escape in his car. To stop them, One of the operatives jumped onto the roof of the cars. One of the passengers shot a policeman in the hand ", - reported in the report.

according to the interior Ministry, the policeman wound with empty hands and a head injury taken to hospital. The criminals managed to escape from the place of committing a criminal offence.

in Kiev declared the plan " Interception ". Events are held on detention of malefactors.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 7, 9 thousand people. The question of resolving the situation in Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

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