The commander of a pro-government volunteer battalion and his wife were injured when the van they were driving in exploded while in motion around noon local time in Ukraine's Kharkiv on Friday.
#BREAKING: A car exploded in Ukraine's #Kharkiv minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/xw8O6srfgi
— Yury Barmin (@yurybarmin) 6 Март 2015
According to Ukrainian media reports, local residents heard the explosion as far as several blocks away.
The blast injured Andriy Yanholenko, the commander of the Slobozhanschina pro-government volunteer battalion and his wife were in the white Volkswagen minivan when it exploded and caught fire.
The Ukrainian Internal Ministry announced that it found the remains of a mine near the site of the explosion.
The blast comes less than two weeks after a blast during a pro-government rally in Kharkov which killed three people and injured nine more.
