Non-combat losses in the Rada: “Serega the American” showed journalists his jacket sleeve torn off in a fight
In the Verkhovna Rada, people's deputy from the BPP faction Ivan Melnichuk and his colleague from the presidential faction Sergei Leshchenko, whom Kiev journalists nicknamed “Serega the American” for emphasizing his closeness to the US Embassy during the time of Geoffrey Pyatt, got into a fight.
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A video of the incident was published on the Internet.
Leshchenko himself said in a comment that the sleeve of his jacket was torn off.
According to deputies who witnessed the fight, Melnichuk argued with Leshchenko because of a Facebook post that BPP deputies do not come to the committee on preventing and combating corruption on instructions from the presidential administration.
“There was a discussion about why Sergei wrote this,” said another MP from the BPP, Igor Artyushenko.
“Ivan Melnichuk started fighting with Leshchenko. This is the complete absurdity of parliamentarism,” said non-factional people’s deputy Yuriy Derevianko.
Later, the scandalous people's deputy from the BPP Oleg Barna, who became famous for his attack on ex-Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, intervened in the brawl and separated them.
“I only saw how Leshchenko waved it off when Barna separated them,” noted people’s deputy Valery Patskan.
Later, Leshchenko’s colleague, People’s Deputy Mustafa Nayem, spoke from the parliament rostrum.
According to him, anti-corruption fighters are allegedly “subjected to physical and moral torture.” “We have never felt supported by these people in parliament. Yanukovych started this way,” he added.
In turn, the offender of “Serega the American” in a commentary on the NewsOne channel said that the “offended and torn” Leshchenko was “lying about the motives of the brawl.”
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