An important Ukrainian military official was killed in Kyiv on Monday after someone accidentally pulled the pin to a grenade gifted to the man for his birthday.
The case of the grenade explosion that killed Major Hennadii Chastiakov, an assistant of Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, was referred to the State Bureau of Investigation, the National Police reported on Nov. 7.
An aide to the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s military was killed after receiving a live grenade as a birthday present that was immediately detonated by his 13-year-old son.
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Hennadii Chestiakov, an aide to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has died as a result of careless handling of a grenade in the village of Chaiky in Kyiv Oblast. Source: Mariana Reva, spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine; Ukrainska Pravda sources in law enforcement Quote: "A 39-year-old serviceman has died at his home in the village of Chaiky as a result of careless handling of ammunition.