Occupation authorities: ‘interim police chief of LPR’, six more people wounded in blast

An explosive device went off at a barbershop in Luhansk, Leonid Pasechnik, the Russia-installed “governor” of the occupied Ukrainian region, reports.

A total of seven people were injured in the blast, including Igor Kornet, the interim “chief of the LPR police”, RIA Novosti reported, citing its sources. TASS says Kornet suffered a heavy injury and is now in the ICU. Baza confirms Kornet was in the barbershop, of which he is a return customer, when the explosion went off.

The remaining injured people are all men, the youngest is 17 years of age. Four of them are in grave condition. “All the wounded are in hospitals; doctors are fighting for their lives,” Pasechnik wrote.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has initiated a criminal procedure on the account of attempted murder, illegal acquisition of explosives, and attempt on the life of a law enforcer.

A former representative of the Luhansk occupation administration reported two explosions in Luhansk earlier today.

Artem Lysohor, the legitimate governor of the Luhansk region, has reported that mobile data was switched off in the region today due to the explosions.

“The occupants have reported explosions at non-working facilities, but somehow they considered this a security threat and started to switch off the Internet people have paid for,” he wrote.