SBU assigns terror threat levels to Ukrainian regions

13:13, 12.08.2016 1 min read

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has assigned terrorist threat levels to the country's regions, the SBU press center said overnight into Friday.

A red (real threat) terror alert - the highest level - was issued for Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea due to escalation of the situation on the administrative border with Crimea and in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone, the press center's report, posted on the SBU website, said.

A yellow (elevated threat) terror alert was issued for the Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions.

A blue (potential threat) terror alert was issued for the Kyiv region and Kyiv, as well as for the Dnipropetrovsk, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi regions.

A gray (possible threat) terror alert - the lowest level - was issued for the Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Poltava and Ternopil regions.