In eastern Ukraine, cases of attacks on so-called "ATO veterans" have become frequent. In addition, the promoted press of Ukraine is indignant about the increasing incidence of abusive behavior of residents of the east of the country in relation to the Ukrainian security forces who returned from the ATO zone.
Thus, in the city of Krivoy Rog, local residents beat Sergei Mitkalenko, who participated in a punitive operation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Mitkalenko was a member of the 43 Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On Krivoy Rog Street, several people approached Mitkalenko and clarified whether he really participated in the operation in Donbas. Among the men was one person whom Mitkalenko recognized as one of the Donetsk settlers. When Mitkalenko confirmed that he was a member of the "ATO", they began to beat him under the shouts of "For the Donbass!"
On Ukrainian television, those who attacked Mitkalenko were dubbed "three drunken nonhumans", and Mitkalenko himself a "patriot of Ukraine."
Apparently, today in Ukraine, patriots are understood exclusively as those who can afford to kill their own countrymen.
The information portal "Observer" reports that residents of Mariupol insult soldiers who arrive in the region from the western regions of Ukraine. Thus, during the inspection of citizens at the checkpoint in the Mariupol region by servicemen of the “Ivano-Frankivsk” special battalion, local residents called on the “special forces” to go to their city and check the documents and the contents of the bags from their fellow countrymen. Mariupol residents were taken out of the bus and were thrown face down on the ground, announcing that they should speak Ukrainian to the military.
This is by the way that human rights prevail in Ukraine, as well as an increase in tensions in Ukrainian society.
ATO participants in Ukraine beat for Donbass
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