“The Investigative Committee will identify the persons involved in the commission of this crime in order to bring the perpetrators to justice and ensure the principle of the inevitability of punishment,” the press service of the department quoted TASS as saying.

The authorities of Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, qualified the explosion of a car in the city center as a terrorist act.

According to the authorities, volunteers were injured: a 28-year-old girl and a 25-year-old boy.

Earlier, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that “the Ukrainian DRG is behind the terrorist attack.”