Russian detained in Ukraine over attack on SBU officers

10:25, 11.01.2016 1 min read

A Russian citizen has been detained along with several other people in Kyiv as part of an investigation into an attack on officers of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU).

"On January 10, the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, acting together with officers of SBU's internal security department, detained an armed group, which also included a citizen of the Russian Federation," the public and media relations department of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has reported.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, these people are suspected of attacking SBU officers and beating them with baseball bats at the Hydropark leisure activities park in the Ukrainian capital on November 23, 2015.

"One of the attacked female officers is still in a coma after sustaining a serious open craniocerebral injury, a basal skull fracture," the Prosecutor General's Office said on its website.