2015 Kharkiv bombing

2015 Kharkiv bombing
Part of Ukrainian crisis
Petra Hryhorenka Avenue in Kharkiv, where the bombing took place
Location	Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
Date	22 February 2015
Attack type	Bomb
Weapons	Bomb
Deaths	4
Injured	10
Motive	to drive out Ukrainian forces from Kharkiv

The 2015 Kharkiv bombing occurred on 22 February 2015, when a bomb hit a Ukrainian national unity rally in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast.^[1][2][3] The blast killed at least three people and injured another 10, including a boy age 15 and a policeman. On 25 February the death toll rose to four.^[4][5] It was one of many bombings in the cities of the Kharkiv oblast and Odesa oblast.

Security forces arrested four people after the attack. More attacks happened in the city afterwards.^{[citation needed]}

Bloomberg reported that the deadly attack in the government-controlled city assisted the decline of the hryvnia, Ukraine's national currency.^[6]

On 28 December 2019 suspects Viktor Tetyutsk, Serhiy Bashlykov and Volodymyr Dvornikov were sentenced to life imprisonment. They were released (during a major prison exchange) and handed over to representatives of the Russian-controlled Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic on 29 December 2019.^{[citation needed]}