MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Saturday, Plotnitsky's car was hit by a blast. He sustained non-life threatening injuries.
"… the SMM could assess from a distance of approximately 15-30 meters, that an explosion had likely been caused by an improvised explosive device (assessed as approximately 1kg of high explosives) placed next to or in, a lamp post about two meters away from the vehicle, which was damaged and downed, at the side of the road," the report reads.
Plotnitsky accused the Ukrainian government of the failed attack against him.
The eastern Ukrainian regions of Lugansk and Donetsk do not acknowledge the legitimacy of the government in Kiev that came to power after a February 2014 coup in Ukraine. The new Kiev regime launched a military operation against eastern Ukraine in April 2014 but failed to regain control over the breakaway territories.
