KIEV: Ukraine on Tuesday launched a criminal probe into an alleged sniper attack on a top prosecutor who had been probing President Petro Poroshenko’s main political and business foes.
The reported assassination bid would mark yet another unwanted political conflict in a crisis-hit country whose 18-month eastern pro-Russian revolt has already killed more than 8,000 people and destroyed swathes of its economy.
The State Security Service (SBU) said the attempt on Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin’s life was made during an emergency meeting in his central Kiev office late on Monday.
Ukraine’s military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios said only bulletproof glass prevented the three rounds …read more
Source: theSun
