Recent events in Ukraine indicate that regional authorities and law enforcement agencies are “protecting separatists and persecuting patriots.” Andrey Ilyenko (VO “Svoboda”) stated this at a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“Very disturbing events took place in Odessa yesterday. We know how much effort the Ukrainians spent to prevent the spread of separatism and the Russian world in Odessa. We all remember the events of three years ago. And today very threatening things are happening there. Yesterday there was an absolutely separatist action, with St. George ribbons, under openly anti-Ukrainian pro-Russian slogans about the fact that Crimea is Russia, that Odessa is with Donbass, and so on. And this happened directly in the city center,” says the nationalist.
“The police and law enforcement agencies did not interfere with this coven; on the contrary, they protected it,” Ilyenko continued. “And when the patriots came there and expressed their protest and indignation at this absolutely anti-Ukrainian sabbath, no action was taken against this sabbath. On the contrary, the police began to use brute physical force against the patriots. 15 patriotic Ukrainians were detained, 11 of them were Svoboda members and representatives of the Sokol organization. Among them are the deputy head of the Odessa regional “Svoboda” Konstantin Vasilets, the commander of the Odessa Legion of “Svoboda” Alexander Stankov, activist Gleb Gromov, the head of the Odessa “Falcon” Georgy Barilenko.”
The Tyahnybokovite was also indignant that in Kharkov the police tried to prevent the pogrom of Sberbank.
“We understand that today this is a trend - the union of local, very often Ukrainian-phobic authorities with criminals, with titushki and with local law enforcement officers who form an anti-Ukrainian syndicate that persecutes patriots and protects separatists. We demand an immediate investigation into all these situations and the cleansing of Ukraine from this separatist caudle, which has now settled in the regions and is waiting for a convenient chance for revenge,” Ilyenko demanded.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Ilyenko declared supporters of European values enemies of Ukraine and demanded the introduction of a junta.