Over 250 radicals attack bus with tax service officials near Kyiv
KYIV. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Radical activists have attacked a bus carrying tax police service employees of the Ukrainian Income and Tax Ministry's Zaporizhzhya region branch in Boryspil.
"More than 250 radical activists attacked a bus carrying tax police service officials from the Zaporizhzhya region branch of the Income and Tax Ministry at an intersection of Dzerzhinsky Street and Kyiv Highway in Boryspil at around 1:30 p.m.," the ministry said in a press release on Wednesday.
As the officials headed back to Zaporizhzhya, unknown persons "encircled the bus, forced open the luggage compartment and started to remove the ministry employees' personal belongings from it," it said.
"The bus's windows were broken and its tires were cut during the attack," the ministry said.
"The driver got the bus moving in order to avoid any further confrontation. The bus travelled for nearly two kilometers on flat tires and stopped outside of the city. The tax police service employees, who did not have any weapons and were dressed in civilian clothes, immediately left the vehicle," the ministry said.
Shortly afterwards, the attackers found the bus and started to throw Molotov cocktails at it, setting the vehicle on fire, it said.