Kiev points finger at Russia after blast kills two at rally; four suspects arrested

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Kiev points finger at Russia after blast kills two at rally; four suspects arrested

Two bodies covered with the Ukrainian flag lie on the ground following an explosion during the Dignity March marking the one-year anniversary of the overthrow of the country's former pro-Kremlin president, in northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, on Sunda. A bomb killed the two, as Kiev's army and rebels wrangled over a truce requiring them to pull back heavy weapons. | AFP-JIJI

Reuters

Feb 23, 2015

KHARKIV, UKRAINE – Kiev said it had arrested suspects who had been armed and instructed in Russia in connection with a blast that killed at least two people Sunday in a crowd at a pro-Ukrainian rally far from eastern Ukraine’s war zone.

Ukrainian authorities fear violence could spread from two rebellious provinces to other areas in the mainly Russian-speaking east, a swathof territory the Kremlin calls “New Russia.”

The bomb in Kharkiv, the biggest city in the east, struck one of numerous events across Ukraine on Sunday marking the deaths of 100 protesters a year ago in an uprising that toppled a Moscow-backed president.