Each cartridge case was marked to identify the cartridge as sporting
The cartridges were sold in Lviv six years ago. Photo: collage “Today”
The cartridges with which fired on the car of the first assistant to the President of Ukraine Serhiy Shefir, from a limited batch. They were sold in one of the stores in Lviv as sports ones.
The journalist Yuri Butusov told about this on his Facebook page, citing sources close to the arms business.
“This is from a batch of 7.62×39 cartridges imported to Ukraine from Hungary, where each case was marked to identify the cartridge as a sporting one. The SM brand is Sport Munition, they went on sale about six years ago in the now defunct Zolotoy Pheasant store in Lviv These cartridges were marketed as civilian sporting cartridges, with the proviso for use only on the training ground and not for hunting. “, – he noted.
The cartridges are conventional army cartridges with a steel core (PS) bullet made in Germany, Butusov added.
“The Hungarians bought them, unpacked them from army containers, marked each cartridge to be called sports (probably to bypass some of their internal rules of circulation), after which a certain merchant managed to import them into Ukraine and certify them for civilian circulation. under permission. The party was limited, as far as I know, there were no new deliveries. “– explained the journalist.
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What is known about the assassination attempt
- The attack took place at about 10 am on Wednesday, September 22, near the village. Foresters (Kiev region). The car of the first assistant to the President of Ukraine Shefir was fired upon, the driver was wounded.
- Victim the driver drove another five kilometers on a flat tire to the nearest parking lot and only stopped there to call an ambulance.
- Criminal proceedings have been opened under the article “attempted murder of two or more persons.”
- Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky noted the heroic act of the driver of the first assistant to the president, Sergei Shefir, and reported on his state of health. According to him, the doctors completed the operation and now nothing threatens the driver’s health.
- The head of the National Police of Ukraine Igor Klimenko said that law enforcement officers are currently considering three main versions of the assassination attempt on the first assistant to the President of Ukraine Serhiy Shefir: state activities of the victim, pressure on the country’s top leadership, destabilization of the political situation in our country, including a version with the participation of the special services of foreign countries is being considered.
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