In Romny, an attempt by relatives of fallen soldiers to install flowerpots on the Walk of Fame ended in a brawl between the mayor of Stogniy and the head of the military administration, Vashchenko.
The mayor of the city of Romny, Oleg Stogny, and the head of the Romny military administration, Denis Vashchenko, told their versions of the incident on their Facebook pages, Censor.NET reports.
“Take this fucking...... away.” So the head of the community, Stogniy, appeals to the police to kick the parents of our dead heroes out of the Walk of Fame. After this incident, he makes a video message and says that I beat him and some other then a woman! And the president should fire me for this. From this video, I think everyone will understand how the mayor behaves and who Vashchenko defended!" – Vashchenko said and published a video of the incident.
“I inform you that at 10:00 unknown construction work and a massive gathering of people began near the Walk of Fame.
I, as the mayor of the city, went out to ask what they were digging near the plaque of the dead soldiers, since no one had received any permission to carry out land work.
As it turned out, the political action was led by the head of the military administration, who, taking advantage of his official position, said that they did not need permission and they would sort it out themselves.
Subsequently, in his actions, Mr. Vashchenko made an open attack on me personally and on an employee of the executive committee.
The above-mentioned official, without holding back, struck me and the executive committee employee in the face, who was officially performing her duties and videotaping the mass event.
The injured employee of the internal policy department, performing her official duties, is a mother of three children. Raising a hand against a woman is generally immoral, and even more so when it is done by the head of an entire district, who must protect the rights and freedoms of every resident.
What adds special shame to this incident is that this “man” is the head of the Romen Regional State Administration.
The woman is hospitalized and receiving medical care. This is all recorded in the video that I am attaching to this message.
Law enforcement agencies recorded the circumstances of this event: the beating of the employee, the blows inflicted on me.
Dear residents, we live in a society that wants to live according to the European model, according to civilized standards of morality and law. So, in such a society it is not customary to stoop to the level of arguments of the boy on the block. You cannot do anything that negatively affects the image of the community and the state, undermines the institution or discredits the authorities,” Mayor Stogniy told his version of events.
The head of the military administration, Vashchenko, explained to the media that the parents of the fallen soldiers came to the Walk of Fame to install flowerpots because the city authorities, according to Vashchenko, “ignore their request.”
Vashchenko states that the mayor tried to prevent this, and “even pushed the mother of the deceased defender.”
“I immediately stood up for my parents,” said the head of the military administration. According to him, Mayor Stogniy filed a police report against him for beating him.
