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2015 Kharkiv bombing

2015 Kharkiv bombing
Part of Ukrainian crisis
Prospekt Marshala Zhukova.JPG
Marshal Zhukov Avenue in Kharkiv, where the bombing took place
Location of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine
Location Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
Date 22 February 2015
Attack type
Bomb
Weapons Bomb
Deaths 4
Non-fatal injuries
10
Perpetrators Kharkiv partizans
Motive to drive out Ukrainian forces from Kharkiv

The 2015 Kharkiv bombing occurred on 22 February 2015, when a bomb hit a Ukrainian national unity rally in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast. The blast killed at least 3 people and injured another 10, including a boy age 15 and a policeman. On 25 February the death toll rose to 4.It is one of many bombings in the cities of Kharkiv and Odessa oblasts

Security forces arrested 4 people after the attack. More attacks happened in the city afterwards.

Bloomberg reported that the deadly attack in the government-controlled city assisted the decline of the hryvnia, Ukraine's national currency.



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