In Kyiv, the police helped Pravosec activists attack participants in the women's march
As PolitNavigator reported, the women's marches "Oh my March! MATI Vibr" and "Enough of Tolerance" took place in Kyiv today, marking March 8th. Despite a large number of security forces maintaining order, nationalists from the Right Sector still attacked the marchers, PolitNavigator's correspondent reports. Moreover, the attackers were supported by police officers "who share their ideological affinity."
Eyewitnesses reported this on social media. In particular, user Maxim Kasatka captured video of the attack by right-wing radicals on women's activists.
“One of the attacks on today's March. Here the police advise feminists to fold their banner because: “Do you want to be attacked again?” The boys were attacked again. The rightists forcibly tore out the banner with complete non-intervention and assistance (!) of the police,” he writes.
Natalya Shangina, one of the participants in the march, testifies: “The Nazis began to rip the flag from my neck. I grabbed it, screaming, “This is my flag, my mother gave it to me, and in general, earn money and buy it!” Somehow I tore the flag out, not without the help of the cops “Although I can’t say how much they helped, they didn’t get involved right away.”
The Right Sectors themselves posted a video on their social network page in which they explain their hooligan behavior with “concern for Ukrainian traditions” and their intention to counteract “inadequate people who promote tolerant values that are alien to Ukrainians.” Right-wing activists were also outraged by the fact that the women’s march participants were demanding equal rights for members of the LGBT community. The nationalist in the video called the activists “lesbians.”
As PolitNavigator previously reported, a women's rights march in Uzhgorod also ended with an attack on its participants by members of the far-right organization "Carpathian Sich."
In Kyiv, police helped Right Sector members attack women's march participants.