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Two security stories from Ukraine, 4 April 2018
Summary
An arrest over a 2017 Kyiv attack and an earlier expulsion of two Iranians offered a view of Ukrainian security work.
What did Ukraine's security announcements show on 4 April 2018? Authorities said they had arrested a suspected terrorist in connection with a 2017 attack in Kyiv. The attack killed two people and wounded three, among them MP Ihor Mosiychuk.
The announcement came days after a separate disclosure. On 30 March 2018, the government of Ukraine stated that it had expelled two Iranians earlier in the year. According to the government, they had tried to buy a Kh-31 missile in Kyiv, which would have violated United Nations sanctions.
What the two cases show
The cases are different in kind. One concerns an investigation into a violent attack that took place in 2017. The other concerns an attempted purchase of military equipment that, by the government's account, was stopped by expulsion rather than prosecution.
Both reports came from Ukrainian authorities, and both described action already taken: an arrest in the first case, an expulsion in the second. Together they put on record, within a few days, how the state handled a past attack and a sanctions-related attempt to obtain a missile.
