2015 Kharkiv bombing

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

We will meet on February 22, 2015 at 12:00 near the Palace of Sports, and we will take a long walk to the Freedom Square, we will demonstrate once again - we are against separatism and arbitrariness!

The march began near the Palace of Sports, activists lined up in a column and moved in the direction of Freedom Square.

[10] The explosion killed two (well-known Kharkiv Euromaidan activist Ihor Tolmachev[11] and police lieutenant colonel Vadym Rybalchenko[12][13]) and injured eleven people.

[11] The next day, 15-year-old Danylo Didyk, who suffered a severe brain injury and fell into a coma as a result of the explosion, died.

According to the adviser to the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky, 4 suspects - members of the underground terrorist group "Kharkiv Partisans" were detained, and RPO-A Shmel was seized from the detainees.

[20] In 4 days, on February 27, a 21-year-old drunk man tried to knock down a monument, scatter flowers laid nearby and paint a picture of the state flag.

He was released from responsibility due to the fact that at the time of sentencing in March 2019, the three-year statute of limitations for criminal prosecution had expired.

[26] On February 22, 2017, Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor Yuriy Danylchenko stated that the accused and their defenders were using every opportunity to prolong the trial.

The prosecutor filed a motion to change the measure of restraint for the accused from detention to personal commitment and at the same time requested life imprisonment for all three defendants.

[30] On December 28, a panel of judges at the Frunzensky District Court in Kharkiv sentenced Viktor Tetyutky, Volodymyr Dvornikov, and Serhiy Bashlykov, accused of the terrorist attack, to life in prison with confiscation of property.

A memorial near the Palace of Sports