The police have launched an investigation into the incident and are not excluding the possibility that it was a terrorist act, according to the local Web site 0542.ua, Ukraine Today reports.

Ukraine's State Security Service has earlier reported that Russia-trained subversive groups had been involved in a series of recent attacks in Odesa and Kharkiv.

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