Police and the military recruitment office covered up the attackers: in Kremenets, a serviceman was beaten in front of witnesses

In Kremenets, Ternopil Region, a drunk group riding quad bikes beat up serviceman Mykola Dukhanov, and the police and employees of the local Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center (TCC and SSP) covered up the attackers’ actions.

This was reported on Facebook by the victim’s wife, Tetiana Shtan.

The incident happened late in the evening on January 11.

Two days before the incident, serviceman Mykola was granted two days’ leave so that he could celebrate his birthday at home. On January 11 he was returning to his unit. In Kremenets, on the central street, a quad bike without license plates, driven by a drunk driver, crashed into his car. Mykola got out of the car to look at the damage, and at that moment the driver of another quad bike, who was standing on the roadside, approached him and, without warning, began beating him. The driver of the quad bike that caused the crash joined in the assault.

The young men were not afraid of anything, even though everything was happening in the city center in front of witnesses, and there was a police station around the corner. Only the arrival of the police stopped them. Moreover, after that they did not run away, but began circling around the law enforcement officers, who were taking Mykola’s statement and opening two cases: one for the traffic accident and a criminal case. More than that, the attackers continued to threaten the serviceman, while the police only shooed them away and did not even try to detain them.

Soon their sober friends appeared. Assessing the situation, they immediately began offering the serviceman money. After he refused, a TCC and SSP lieutenant colonel appeared at the scene. In a грубая manner, he began picking on the beaten man and demanding documents proving why he was not in his unit.

“In fact, he stood there looking for a way to press a serviceman who went to serve as a volunteer in 2015, served, enlisted in the reserve, and then went back into service from the first days of the full-scale invasion,” Shtan wrote.

In the end, the police drew up a report in which they indicated that the quad-bike driver was unknown; they did not take him to be tested for alcohol intoxication and returned the unregistered quad bike to him. The police cautiously wrote: “A dispute arose between the drivers and a scuffle began.”