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August 24th, 2017 
Awake Goy An unknown device exploded at around 2pm local time on Grushevsky street, local police report. The street is Kiev’s central avenue, with the Ukrainian parliament building, the national bank of Ukraine, and other governmental structures located in the area.
A man and a woman were taken to the hospital following the explosion, police say.
Bomb disposal units have been dispatched to the scene. The secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council and head of national police have also arrived, local media report.
Ukraine marked its independence day with a military parade, which ended shortly before the explosion.
US Defense Secretary Mattis is currently visiting Kiev. Earlier in the day, he made a statement announcing that US is considering supplying lethal arms to Ukraine. The Pentagon chief also said that Washington recently decided to supply Ukraine with more than $175 million worth of equipment.
As of now, investigators are regarding the incident as disorderly conduct, a representative of Ukraine’s security service, Elena Gitlyanskaya, told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to one of the eyewitnesses, vehicles with diplomatic car plates were attacked.
“A firecracker was thrown at cars of an Azerbaijani embassy. It missed and hit two passers-by, a woman and a young man,” Vitaly Gruzinov wrote on Facebook.
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