Poland’s police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk was hospitalized with minor accidents on Wednesday after receiving a present that exploded after his go to to Ukraine earlier this week, a press release from Poland’s Inside Ministry mentioned on Thursday.
“Yesterday at 7:50 a.m., an explosion occurred in a room adjoining to the workplace of the Police Chief,” the assertion mentioned.
“In the course of the Police Chief’s working go to to Ukraine on December 11-12 this 12 months, the place he met with the heads of the Ukrainian Police and Emergency Conditions Service, he obtained some items, one in every of which exploded.”
The assertion alleged the present got here from one of many heads of Ukrainian providers. CNN has reached out to Kyiv regional police and nationwide police for remark however haven’t but obtained a response.
The police chief was hospitalized for remark and a member of employees from the police headquarters additionally suffered minor accidents, however didn’t want hospitalization, the assertion mentioned.
The assertion added that Poland has requested Ukraine to make clear what occurred and a case was “instantly opened” with the prosecutor’s workplace and corresponding providers.
The incident comes after a slew of suspicious mail was despatched to Ukrainian embassies in Europe, pushing Ukraine to place all of its abroad diplomatic stations below heightened safety.
Kyiv’s embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Austria, and the consulates common in Naples and Krakow, have additionally obtained suspicious packages, Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson for the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of Ukraine, mentioned on Dec. 2 in a Fb submit.
