An attack was carried out on the head of the Kyiv city headquarters of Yushchenko, deputy Volodymyr Bondarenko. \n \nAccording to the Yushchenko headquarters website, on October 25 at around 20:15, unidentified individuals in camouflage attacked Bondarenko's car. \n \nOn Monday, after receiving citizens, Bondarenko informed his relatives by mobile phone that he was driving to their dacha, which is located near the Zhytomyr highway. \n \nHowever, upon entering the area where dacha houses are located on one side and forest on the other, the car slowed down at a turn. At that moment, Volodymyr Bondarenko saw fire in the forest and asked the driver to stop in order to find out what was happening and to avoid a fire. \n\nAt the moment the car stopped, two burly men in camouflage rose from the roadside and began throwing stones and bottles with flammable liquid at the car, which engulfed the entire vehicle and got into the interior. \n\nHowever, unexpectedly for the attackers, a lighting system near the nearest dacha house activated automatically in response to movement. Bondarenko and his driver jumped out onto the street under the cover of the car. \n\nThe deputy is convinced that if the area had not suddenly been illuminated, the attackers' actions would have continued. \n\n"If we had gotten out of the car immediately, they could have shot at us. Fortunately, this lighting activated, the attackers obviously got scared by it, so they very quickly – within 30-40 seconds – pelted the car with incendiary devices, but were themselves forced to flee because everything was illuminated. When the fire started inside the passenger compartment, we abandoned the car," said Volodymyr Bondarenko. \n\nThe official Opel Omega car burned to the ground. The people's deputy and his driver managed to escape. \n\n"I am one hundred percent certain that this was an attempt to kill a people's deputy for my political activity, for my statements regarding the Kyiv police, which this time did not succeed." \n\n"I said then and I repeat once again about the absolute fusion of criminality with Kyiv's law enforcement agencies," Bondarenko stated. \n\nHe is also convinced that "this was a planned attack to intimidate him and Viktor Yushchenko's supporters on the eve of the elections."\n\nRegarding the fact of the car being set on fire, the police opened a criminal case under Article 194, Part 2 "intentional destruction or damage of property by arson," Interfax-Ukraine reports. \n\nThe sanction under Part 2 of Article 194 provides for imprisonment from 3 to 15 years.