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April 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“We will think about how to respond adequately,” he said. “I
think we will figure it out. It’s a pity that this has happened,”
Interfax quoted him as saying.
European football’s governing body UEFA said that the blasts had not dented
its confidence in the Euro 2012 co-host’s security measures.
“UEFA has been made aware of the explosions that occurred in Dnipropetrovsk
today and is waiting for the results of the investigation of the Ukrainian
authorities into the matter,” it said in a statement.
“Our thoughts go to the people who have been injured and we wish them a full
and speedy recovery,” it added.
“This event does not change UEFA’s confidence in the security measures that
have been developed by the authorities in view of UEFA Euro 2012, and which
will ensure a smooth and festive tournament,” it said.
Dnipropetrovsk is not a host city in the country’s first major international
sports event, but is on the route of the trophy tour that is due there on
May 21.
It is about 65 miles from the nearest host city Donetsk, where the first match
is scheduled for June 11.
Dnipropetrovsk is also the home town of Yanukovych’s fierce opponent, the 2004
Orange Revolution leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a jail sentence
for abuse of power that has strained Ukraine’s relations with the European
Union.
Tymoshenko, 51, has been on hunger strike since last Friday and has said she
suffered a beating in the prison where she is serving her disputed
seven-year sentence.
Footage on Russia’s NTV channel showed people crowding around a tram stop
where one of the blasts occurred. Some bandaged the injured, making
tourniquets out of trouser belts.
Other victims were lying on the pavement, blood oozing from their wounds.
“The explosion went off when the tram was starting to leave, there were
no people at the stop” but passengers inside were hit by window glass
shards, regional police spokesman Oleksiy Shcherbatov said in televised
remarks.
Officials earlier said that the first blast went off in a rubbish bin near a
movie theatre in the centre of the city at 11:50 a.m.
A second blast followed about 40 minutes later and the third, in another busy
central street, 15 minutes after that, emergencies officials said.
The fourth explosion went off at 1pm, the interior ministry said without
providing further details. All four blasts were in the same part of the city
located not far from the Dnieper.
Twenty-five people were hospitalised by mid-afternoon, the emergencies
ministry said.
Ukrainian prosecutors launched a probe into possible acts of terrorism, with
top officials including Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko quickly
leaving for Dnipropetrovsk to personally oversee the investigation.
No information was released as to the possible perpetrators of the blasts. A
similar series of explosions in eastern Ukraine in January last year was
linked by officials to an attempt to extort money.
“So far nothing is clear,” a high-ranking official told AFP. Local
police were on high alert and asked residents to “pay attention to
suspicious objects” while they searched for more explosives.
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