If arrested after today’s incident, however, the man may face a longer prison sentence than he would before. The motive of the attacker to take hostages and to threaten to explode a grenade was his desire to avoid jail, according to Gerashchenko. In 2014, Skrypnyk was sentenced to three years in prison for drug possession. A year later, Skrypnyk was sentenced to two years in prison for theft. In 2007, Skrypnyk was convicted of a small theft and was fined. Skrypnyk drove out of the city, released Shyan, ditched the car and disappeared in the nearby forest.Īccording to Gerashchenko, the suspect has been convicted three times in the past. The police are searching the woods near Poltava trying to find Skrypnyk.Įarly on July 23, the police were planning to arrest Skrypnyk, but when the police approached him, he pulled out the RGD-5 hand grenade, threatening to blow himself and the people around him up.Īccording to Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko, Skrypnyk took a police officer hostage and, after negotiations, the police officer was exchanged for a car and Colonel Vitaly Shyan, head of the criminal investigations department of the Poltava Oblast Police.Īfter that, the car with the hostage and the attacker left the city. The man - identified by the police as former convict Roman Skrypnyk - is now on the run. The suspect fled and released the police officer only when he left Poltava, a city 200 kilometers east of Kyiv, where the incident happened.
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