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Radio Australia: Booby-trapped honey jar explodes, killing Ukrainian soldier as fighting continues

Published Jan. 17, 2015 at 4:43 pm

A Ukrainian serviceman climbs onto a new armoured vehicle during a handing over ceremony of military equipment by the President Poroshenko to the Ukrainian forces near the city of Ghytomyr, some 140 km from Kyiv, on Jan. 5, 2015.

Photo by AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY

A Ukrainian soldier is killed and three others are wounded after an elderly man pretending to bring troops a jar of honey turns out to be an attacker in disguise, with the gift exploding.

An elderly man pretending to bring Ukrainian troops a jar of honey turned out to be an attacker in disguise, with the gift exploding and killing a soldier, a local official says.