Ukrainian prosecutors announced on Tuesday that they had opened an investigation into a bizarre explosion at a birthday celebration that killed an aide to Ukraine’s top military commander, in what the authorities portrayed as a tragic accident.
The prosecutor’s office said that one of the grenades had been picked up by the major’s son.
While taking the grenade from the boy, “the officer pulled the ring, which caused the explosion,” the office said in a statement.
Prosecutors said that Major Chastyakov, an aide to Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, commander in chief of the Ukrainian military, had been killed on the spot by the explosion.
There was no explanation of why someone would give the major grenades as a present or why he would have pulled the ring.
Persons:
Gennadiy Chastyakov, Chastyakov, Valery Zaluzhny
Organizations:
Prosecutors
Locations:
Ukraine’s, Kyiv