7 February 2014

Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vitaliy Zakharchenko said that according to the latest information of his department, right-wing radicals are preparing a terrorist act in order to obscure the start day of the Winter Olympics in Sochi and draw attention to themselves. Zakharchenko warned that “law enforcement officers have enough opportunities to find them and prosecute them.” The Batkivshchyna opposition party called V. Zakharchenko’s statements an attempt to intimidate the public and emphasized that it was Zakharchenko who “acts like terrorist No. 1”, being “the main extremist in the country”, since “it is the law enforcement agencies that carry out a large-scale campaign of terror against all citizens of Ukraine, who fight for their rights and freedoms and oppose the authorities.”