As a result of a road traffic accident involving the leader of a religious community from the Kherson region, two police officers were killed — Senior Police Lieutenant Dmytro Bondarchuk and Police Lieutenant Denys Budchenko. They were performing their official duties.
This was reported on the official website of the National Police.
This concerns the road traffic accident that occurred on June 5 in Kyiv.
According to the police, the driver of the Mercedes, who turned out to be the 49-year-old leader of the evangelical Christian Baptists religious community “Church of the village of Pidstepne” Pavlo Pleshivtsev, drove at high speed onto a pedestrian area.
As a result, two more people were killed — a 47-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy. Two men and a woman with injuries are in the hospital.
According to the capital’s media, rescuers pulled the driver from the mangled vehicle. He is currently in the hospital under doctors’ supervision.