The interior Ministry of Ukraine has established the identity of the armed man, captured in the city of Lutsk Volyn region the bus with passengers

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He was a citizen of Ukraine, native of the village of Gai in Orenburg region of the Russian Federation Maxim Compressor born in 1975

Anton Gerashchenko / facebook.com

The interior Ministry of Ukraine has established the identity of the armed man, captured in the city of Lutsk Volyn region the bus with passengers. He was a citizen of Ukraine, native of the village of Gai in Orenburg region of the Russian Federation Maxim Compressor 1975 year of birth, reported in Facebook, the Deputy Minister of internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko.

Compressor had previously been twice convicted and served a sentence of imprisonment for the aggregate period of about 10 years in correctional institutions for committing a number of grave crimes: robbery, fraud, extortion, illegal carrying, storage, acquisition, manufacture and sale of firearms or cold weapon, fighting supplies and explosives, fraud with financial resources, banditry, extortion, unlawful handling of weapons. The first term Compressor received in 1994, at the age of 19 years, the second – in 2005. According to media reports, he also passed compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.

Itself Compressor had a Bad Maxim. He published vague requirements siedah reduced to dissatisfaction with the system, writes portal 112.ua . The man demanded from the first persons of Ukraine to record a video confession that they are “terrorists law”, and President Vladimir Zelensky, to oblige all to see the movie “Earthlings”.

An attacker holding hostages for several hours, he called the police. Among the bus passengers are pregnant women and children. The exact number of people on the bus is unknown. The interior Ministry reported, about 20, SBU – 10. Armed with a compressor, the witnesses heard gunshots. The bus shot through glass. According to the newspaper “Volyn news”, Compressor fired two shots at law enforcement officers and thrown out of the bus window the grenade, but it did not explode.

The terrorist claims that he has another explosive, which is laid in another place, and can be powered remotely. He also threatened to blow up a bus in the event of a storm. The interior Ministry said in a Telegram that the police received information about an explosive device on the square in front of metro station “Minsk” in Kiev. Arriving explosives found near one of the stalls a suspicious package and security defused it on the spot. Remains sent for examination.

The mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko said in the Telegram that bomb experts defused two improvised explosive device on the market “Minsk”. “All the people urgently evacuated. The perimeter around the booths took control of the militiamen and rescuers. Explosives strapped between a passenger car and autocycle, defused,” he wrote. Whether this incident is going to be in luck, is unknown.

The editor of the Censor.No Yuri Butusov reported that the Compressor was calling him, demanding that the place came to journalists and distributed requirements. “People on the bus, with phones which he calls, take his threats seriously. He puts the problem of the hostages to contact the media, relatives find contacts and pass him the phone,” – said Butusov. The journalist said he was ready to come on the scene and redeem themselves for women and children in the bus. Compressor, according to Butusova, suspected him as a police officer and hung up.

The center of journalistic investigations “the Power of truth” wrote on Facebook that in 2014 crank wooden published under a pseudonym the book “the Philosophy of the criminal. The apology for freedom. Antisystem” which contains the real facts from the life of the author. In particular, he writes that he grew up in an intellectual family, but his childhood saw too many movies and “decided to become cool.” In grade 11, he was detained on the market with a shotgun, but thanks to contacts of his father the case was closed.

Zelensky took the situation in Lutsk on personal control. Criminal case about capture of hostages. In the city center contracted armored vehicles and special forces. Arrived in the city, interior Minister Arsen Avakov, to personally coordinate the actions of the security forces.

According to the newspaper “Volyn” in the premises of police Avakov holds a meeting about the negotiations with terrorists and shooting. On the second floor a broken window. The building is located near the Theatre square, which is captured by a terrorist bus.