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Blasts damage two Russian banks overnight in Kyiv

ByVeronika Melkozerova. Published June 22, 2015 at 2:01 pm A security guard looks at the smashed door of a Sberbank branch in Kyiv on June 22. Photo by ukraphoto Two Russian state-owned Sberbank branches in Kyiv were damaged from explosions after 1 a.m. on June 22. In both cases, the blasts smashed doors, windows and the signboards of the banks, according to a Kyiv police news release issued on the morning of June 22. The detonations took place in the Darnytsia and Obolon districts. Police opened criminal investigations into hooliganism while reporting that no one was injured in the blasts. The Ukrainian unit of Sberbank, majority-owned by the Central Bank of Russia, is the nation’s fifth largest bank with Hr 59.8 billion in assets, according to the National Bank of Ukraine. Although the police didn’t name the banks affected by the blasts, Dmytro Vitov, an activist of Narodniy Til, wrote on his Facebook page that the explosion in Darnytsia happened near his house on Akhmatova Street at a Sberbank branch. “The damage is insignificant. It’s all about provocation! But I was scared! One of the explosions happened a 100 meters from my house,” Vitov wrote. Explosions at Sberbank branches have happened before. In April, an unidentified device exploded near Borshchahivska Street. The next morning police defused another explosion near the Sberbank branch on Peremohy Avenue. No one has been arrested in connection with the blasts.

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