One person was killed and two injured in a car bombing in the heart of Kyiv near Bessarabska Square on Sept. 8. One of the injured is a child.

The man killed in the blast is Ali Timayev, also known as Timur Mahauri, a Chechen with Georgian citizenship. Timayev, 39, reportedly fled Chechnya after fighting in the Russian-Chechen wars. In Ukraine, he reportedly participated in the fighting in the Donbas as part of a Chechen volunteer battalion on the Ukrainian government side.