One Kiev resident’s private fireworks show for New Year’s Eve, staged amid common Russian rocket assaults on the town, could price him a jail sentence.
The 47-year-old’s use of pyrotechnics comes regardless of Ukraine’s normal ban on fireworks throughout its wartime state of emergency, which has left main cities – routinely hit by missile strikes – on edge and cautious of sudden bangs and explosions.
“He now faces five years of imprisonment,” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote in a public message on Telegram on Sunday.
Residents had knowledgeable the police about the usage of fireworks regardless of the ban.
Police, who arrested the person and confiscated a stockpile of pyrotechnics in his flat, mentioned he’ll now be charged with disturbing the peace.
Shortly after the unlawful fireworks, an air alert was sounded in Kiev as Russia launched a wave of so-called kamikaze drones on the Ukrainian capital.
