Ukraine: Man Throws Grenades in Town Council Meeting, Injures 26 (Including Himself)

It’s a wild video. There’s no way all those people lived.

I don’t know what the politics are. I don’t think it was pro or anti Russian.

But it says a bit about the general state of things in the country, no?

BBC News:

A village councillor in western Ukraine has thrown grenades on to the floor of a council meeting, wounding 26 people, police say.

The attack took place on Friday morning at the village council headquarters in Keretsky in the western Transcarpathian region.

Police have not yet commented on a possible motive for the attack, which has left six seriously wounded.

The meeting was being livestreamed on Facebook when the incident took place.

Councillors had been holding a heated discussion about their budget for 2024 as well as this year’s financial results and holding a vote on awarding the council chief a bonus.

Almost 90 minutes into the meeting, the footage shows one of the village councillors shouting, objecting to the budget. The man, wearing a dark jacket, then leaves the room, taking another man with him.

A few minutes later he returns and stands in front of the door. Shortly afterwards he takes several grenades out of his jacket pockets.

He briefly tries to attract people’s attention, saying “May I, may I?”, before tossing the grenades into the middle of the room. Moments later they explode.

“As a result, 26 people were wounded, six of whom are in a grave condition,” the police statement said, adding that medics were trying to resuscitate the man who threw the grenades.

Police later said the attacker was taken to a hospital to an intensive care unit in a serious condition.

Yeah, the dude literally blew himself up too.

You can tell in the video.

That’s the most shocking part about the event, I think. Why would he blow himself up?

But I thought about it, and was then like: THAT’S. SO. UKRAINE!