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KYIV — The car of an RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv was set on fire overnight on January 29-30 — an arson attack which Deputy Interior Minister Anton Herashchenko said could have been ordered by someone.
Halyna Tereshchuk, who has been working for RFE/RL since 2000, said she suspected the attack was linked to her professional activities..
“We think the crime was ordered, that somebody hired someone to conduct it,” Herashchenko said to RFE/RL, adding that the police were doing “everything to find both the perpetrators and those who ordered the attack.”
The National Police department in Lviv said earlier in the day that a probe had been launched into the “deliberate destruction of the journalist’s property.”