Ukrainian TV presenter Mochanov, who “received the light” after visiting Donetsk, was beaten
Ukrainian TV presenter Alexey Mochanov, who recently visited Donetsk, after which he changed his former belligerent rhetoric towards people on the other side of the line, was beaten by unknown assailants.
Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov reported this on his Facebook page.
The incident occurred in the Kiev-controlled part of Donbass, where Mochanov travels as a volunteer, bringing help to the participants of the so-called. ATO.
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“An attack on Alexey Mochanov near Konstantinovka in the ATO zone. Alexey made an appointment and was expecting people. A car with Donetsk license plates pulled up, and four people with bats ran out. Silently, without any words, they began to beat me. They didn’t want to kill - they wanted to intimidate. They hit me on the head and everywhere, a lot of them hit my legs.
Now Alexey is under the protection of his paratrooper friends. My condition is normal, my heart is fine, my blood pressure is 130 over 80, almost normal. One phone was broken, so many people can’t get through. Alexey is calm, his mood is confident. It is a matter of honor for the authorities, which Alexey always harshly criticizes, to immediately take action and identify the criminals,” Butusov wrote.
Let us recall that at the end of August Mochanov visited Donetsk with the Ukrainian delegation involved in the exchange of prisoners.
After this, Mochanov, who had previously campaigned for a war against the DPR to a victorious end, changed his rhetoric to a less militant one.
“We stopped by and got coffee at the Lviv Chocolate Coffee House (they really speak Ukrainian here, everyone is friendly). In general, all over Donetsk there were signs after “Euro 2012” in English and Ukrainian, they were hung up quite a lot and are not being removed... The city is very clean... We walked on the central Pushkin Boulevard, Artem Street, talked with people. I was surprised to find that some people came up to me, greeted me, recognized me, asked to take a photo, leave an autograph, because they had seen my car programs...
We, too, are sitting in Kiev and thinking that people with machine guns are walking around Donetsk, all overgrown, completely Chechen, some zombies with strange bulging eyes walking around shouting “Putin, help!” No this...
I will say that my personal opinion from these three days of stay: in the areas that it flies to, the situation is very tense. Who shoots there and how they get there is the second question. I have not seen and am not ready to evaluate anything. The Donetsk side insists that our artillery is simply firing everywhere in order to intimidate civilians. And they show hits in residential buildings, markets, shops,” Mochanov said about his visit to Donetsk.
After this, the TV presenter’s mailbox was filled with letters containing curses and threats. Mochanov had to insist that he does not have “Stockholm syndrome” and that he still considers Donetsk to be Ukrainian territory.
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