• Attack: A man with explosives hijacks a bus with about 20 people in Ukraine

An armed man armed with explosives hijacked a bus with 20 people on board in the morning in the northwestern city of Lutsk. His crazy requests put the country's president against the wall, who ended up giving in to part of his claims. After more than 12 hours of kidnapping, the hostages were released and the kidnapper was detained.

The assailant was initially introduced as Maxim Plojoi (Maxim the Bad) when he called the Police. His real name, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, is Maxim Krivosh . In his initial requests, Plojoi demanded that the country's presidents of the courts, ministers, prosecutors, parliament and the church publish a statement admitting that they are "terrorists".

When the news of the kidnapping was already making headlines in the country's media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian security forces had launched a plan to try to resolve the situation "without victims". The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) already had an operation named "Boomerang" ready, with the aim of ending the kidnapping without blood, but without the "self-condemnation" of the Ukrainian state. Then the kidnapper took another somewhat simpler request up his sleeve: he demanded that the president go to the Ukrainians to ask them to watch the documentary 'Earthlings' , released in 2005 and dealing with violence against animals. "Please, it is a minimum requirement, the authorities can do it," he asked from an account on his social networks. Zelensky reacted and a six-second video was recorded with his mobile: "The movie 'Earthlings', 2005, everyone go to see it."

The film is directed by Shaun Monson and narrated in its original version by actor Joaquin Phoenix and was hardly known in Ukraine. But minutes after the Ukrainians saw their president talk about this American production, they looked at the images of the hostages walking free. Zelensky won several points in one day, and not only among the animalists.

Before hijacking the bus at 9:25 a.m., the assailant had posted a message on Twitter explaining his reasons and congratulating everyone on 'Antisystem Day'. He alleged that "the State is the first terrorist".

On the internet there is a book 'Philosophy of the criminal' signed by a person with the same name, which describes his experience in prison and his vision of life. "They have been correcting me for 15 years, but I have not corrected myself, quite the contrary. I have become even more who I am," wrote the kidnapper, who spent several years in prison for fraud, illegal possession of weapons, membership of criminal gang and extortion.

The bus, with the curtains drawn, was stopped in the morning from the Lutsk Theater square, which was surrounded by police officers. Curiosity became concern when a video was released on YouTube in which he could be seen armed with a rifle.

During the morning, the kidnapper threw a grenade from the bus, but it did not explode because he did not remove the ring. He also reported that he had placed a bomb elsewhere. "Bring more journalists, if the police try to get in I will blow up the bus and not just the bus," he threatened in a live conversation with the Russian channel Piervy Kanal. Shortly afterward, the Kiev police deactivated two explosive devices in the capital , although it was not clear whether they were related to the bus case. Last night in Kharkov an alleged accomplice of the kidnapper was arrested.

During the day, the kidnapper shot where the agents were and even against his drones. He also released a lower-powered explosive. After more than 12 hours of kidnapping, and after long negotiations with the police, at around 9pm he released three hostages: a pregnant woman, a boy and an old woman . The individual claimed to have placed explosives in different points of the vehicle, which made an assault very difficult. It wasn't until shortly before ten at night that the others were released, in a finale worthy of the 'Black Mirror' series.

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