Man hijacks Land Rover, crashes it into bus, police vehicle and dries into church

In Vladivostok, a man highjacked a Land Rover, rammed it into a bus, several cars, into a police vehicle and then tried to drive into a church.

The man was arrested. A hooliganism case was filed against the perpetrator, no one was hurt in the incident, law-enforcement officials said.

When detained, the man with a broken nose called officials bribe-takers. He also expressed his outrage about the requirement to buy candles in churches before putting them up there.

A traffic police officer asked the man to take a breathanalyzer test in front of reporters' cameras. The man did not refuse, the device showed 0 ppm.

Interestingly, the detained man previously served at the Primorsky Investigative Committee. He was fired in January 2022 for "inappropriate posts on his social networks." In 2023, a court found his dismissal illegal, VL. ru publication said.

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Vladivostok is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. It is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, covering an area of 331.16 square kilometers (127.86 square miles), with a population of 603,519 residents as of 2021. Vladivostok is the second-largest city in the Far Eastern Federal District, as well as the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk. It is located approximately 45 kilometers (28 mi) from the China–Russia border and 134 kilometers (83 mi) from the North Korea–Russia border.