In the Kharkiv region, a military enlistment office worker beat a pensioner

Military enlistment officer beats pensioner in Lozova, Kharkiv region.

A video of the fight was published by Telegram channels.

The footage shows a pensioner talking to a military enlistment officer near a vehicle belonging to the territorial recruitment center. A verbal altercation broke out between them, which quickly escalated into a physical fight. The two men began exchanging punches. Several bystanders intervened to break up the conflict, after which the enlistment officer left the scene. The reason for the altercation remains unknown.

Earlier, residents of Kharkiv began forming groups to resist enlistment officers. Victoria Kolesnyk-Lavinska, the regional ombudsman for human and children’s rights, stated that locals have been setting fire to officials’ vehicles and offering armed resistance.

Before this incident, a Ukrainian man fired a gun into the air and threw an airsoft grenade at police officers and a military enlistment officer who were checking conscription documents in Zaporizhzhia.