A man with a grenade tried to take TRC employees hostage in Cherkasy

In Cherkasy, a man tried to take hostage servicemen of the Territorial Recruit Center (TRC), threatening to detonate a combat grenade.

This is written about by the Cherkasy TRC and Suspilne.

The incident occurred on Khimikiv Avenue when the TRC servicemen stopped a man to check his credentials.

During the conversation, the man pulled out a grenade, pulled out a check, began threatening to blow himself up and tried to take the TRC servicemen hostage. Eyewitnesses say that he also had a gun.

They negotiated with the man and eventually detained him.

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