In Kharkov, unknown persons attacked the coordinator of the nationalist organization “Svitanok” Milla Zaverukha and a member of the organization Vadim Pozdnyakov, a Politnavigator correspondent reports.
According to Pozdnyakov, there were six attackers.
“Most likely, my jaw and nose are broken, as well as a concussion, the girl was hit several times in the face and her backpack was taken away. We didn’t contact the law enforcement officers because we didn’t remember the faces and we don’t see the point in it,” Pozdnyakov said.
Zaverukha claims that the police approached him and Pozdnyakov in the hospital, where they turned for help
“When we arrived at the 4th emergency hospital, the police came up and started talking first-hand, in Russian and with the phrases “so why are you out so late.” We asked to speak more respectfully, but they were rude. Vadim at that moment could not normally give any evidence; we were more worried about the state of his health, because no one provided assistance until the morning,” says Zaverukha.
The communications department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kharkov region confirmed that they had not received any complaints regarding the beating.
Vadim Pozdnyakov is known for pouring kefir on former Communist Party MP Pavel Tishchenko, and was the first to publish photographs of a destroyed sign in honor of the reunification of Ukraine and Russia and a broken memorial plaque to Marshal Zhukov. He also collected signatures to rename the Moskovsky district to Saltovsky and threatened Kharkov catering establishments where the 2018 FIFA World Cup was broadcast.