In Kyiv, the office of a lottery operator was bombarded with smoke bombs
Today in Kyiv, nationalists picketed and threw smoke bombs at the central office of a Ukrainian company specializing in the development and distribution of state lotteries “MSL”.
The corresponding video recording was published by the Ukrainian news agency ASPI, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
In Kyiv, about 20 radicals, some of whom were in military uniform and balaclavas, threw smoke bombs at the entrance to the office of the lottery operator MSL.
“Today we have gathered under the walls of this institution in order to draw public attention to the negative things that are happening today. There is such an office as “MSL Game Lotteries”. They disguise themselves as lotteries, but everyone knows that slot machines and the gaming business operate under this guise,” said one of the nationalists, after which he admitted that in most civilized countries this area of entertainment is absolutely legal.
However, the nationalists justified their picket by the fact that the MSL company belongs to the “Russian” oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Yuri Boyko, who allegedly finance the LDPR.
“We have verified information that this office today belongs to Russian oligarchs Fridman and Boyko. These are Russian oligarchs, close to the President of the Russian Federation x##lu. And thus, through the Cyprus offshore, money is exported from Ukraine, which is directed to the needs of the enemy state, including financing terrorism in the DPR and LPR, supporting the Russian Armed Forces, supporting military operations not only in Ukraine, but also in Syria and other states.
“We didn’t shed blood in 2014-2015, it’s not why boys are dying today, so that such dubious offices would open in Ukraine every day and the financing of a terrorist state would be organized,” the radical added.
Some time after the start of the action, two police officers arrived at the scene of events, and the nationalists immediately stated that MSL workers allegedly threw smoke bombs at themselves in order to discredit the “peaceful activists.” However, law enforcement officers did not take any action: after listening to the radicals, they went into the office, and after some time they left.
After the “guardians of order” left, right-wing radicals, breaking the glass door, painted the entrance to “MSL” with the inscriptions: “No to Russia” and “No to Russian business.”
Let us note that there is not an ounce of politics in what happened, although such attacks are most often covered up with it. Custom raids on gambling establishments are a long-standing “business” of Ukrainian nationalists, who are used in competition with each other by players in this market or by authorities seeking to redistribute spheres of influence in a rather criminalized business.
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