"As a result of clear and well-coordinated actions of the police in the Kharkiv region, a group of attackers have just been detained in the Krasnogradskiy district of the Kharkov region," he said.
Gerashchenko told the details of the incident. According to him, there was a conflict between supporters of different political forces on the Kharkov-Kiev highway.
“As a result of the attack on the bus, one of the parties injured two citizens from traumatic weapons. Another citizen received a craniocerebral injury, ”the deputy minister said, adding that there were no dead.
Earlier, Ilya Kiva, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Opposition Platform - For Life party, said that representatives of nationalist organizations fired on a bus carrying members of the Patriots For Life public movement on the Kiev-Kharkov highway.
He also claimed that as a result of the incident, there were people killed and hostages.
The police later denied reports of the dead and hostages. The Sirena police operation was introduced in the region.