'At about 8 am, at the intersection of the Vatutina and Karpinski streets, a black SUV exploded. The car did not catch fire but was badly mangled. The blast and shrapnel shattered windows and damaged the facade of the surrounding buildings'.

The media and civilians are not allowed to the site of the explosion.

‘At the moment the territory within a kilometer is cordoned off by the police. Investigators are working on the site,’ said a journalist.

According to local residents, Igor Plotnitsky was taken to the regional hospital of traumatology. Users of social networks report that the hospital is cordoned off by military armed with automatic guns.

However, according to another source, Igor Plotnitsky had not before travelled in the car that blew up today.

The Security Service of Ukraine confirmed the fact of an attempt on the Head of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky.

The head of the SBU Yury Tandit expressed his condolences, but declined to comment further, saying that he did not want to ‘go into the analytical reasoning’.

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