A video of an incident that allegedly took place this week on the streets of the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, spread on social networks – the video shows a young man attacking and brutally knocking out recruitment officers who had previously allegedly stopped another man on the street with the intention of mobilizing him in the war against Russia, the local portal reported. Korabelov.info.
The video shows how the attacker knocks down two representatives of the military police, without them being able to offer serious resistance, after which he flees the scene. The circumstances of the incident have not yet been officially confirmed.
A young man knocked down at least two Territorial Recruitment Center (TCC) officers when they attempted to detain another man on a public street near the city center in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Onlookers yelled encouragement while the detained man managed to escape. Mykolaiv police,… pic.twitter.com/VCFmiAmdk6
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Attacks on Ukrainian army officers and soldiers trying to mobilize men for the war have increased in recent months as the war against Russia, in which more than 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died so far, according to official figures and independent estimates, entered its fifth year.
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