UKRAINIAN communists have condemned a grenade attack on the home of a provincial leader in the city of Mariupol.

The attack took place at 4am on Monday at the flat of Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) Primorsky regional committee first secretary Alexei Krivun.

A grenade fired from a launcher hit the window of Mr Krivun’s third-floor flat in the Primorsky district of the city, near the Donetsk Department of Internal Affairs building.