Ivano-Frankivsk police to step up security following clashes in Kosmach
After an attack on a woman and her child in Kosmach, police in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast will be on extra patrol, said Andriy Yatskiv, communications officer for the National Police in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in interview with Radio Svoboda on Feb. 8.
"The police will carry out intensified service in such areas, where possible, and will work with people and communities to prevent such cases in the future," he said.
Yatskiv stated that the police found that all the participants of the assembly who blocked the road were local residents. And investigators are currently interrogating the people who blocked the road. Then they will decide who to charge.
A police representative called the road blocking by the crowd of women a spontaneous rally, but the police had not received any requests hold a rally.They added that about a hundred people illegally blocked a local road and did not allow traffic to pass. Clashes subsequently broke out.
"It was a spontaneous gathering of people who blocked this section of the road,” he said.
“They did not let people pass, and checked, according to them, passengers and drivers who might be related to the Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support or other related structures.”
According to the police, the condition of the victims has not changed. They confirm that doctors diagnosed the little girl with a soft tissue bruise of the nose, and her 24-year-old mother with a suspected brain injury.
On Feb. 6, in the village of Kosmach, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, a crowd attacked a woman and her child, claiming that she was a "military commissar's informer."
The injured woman said that she was on her way to the Nova Poshta in Kosmach when she was stopped by a crowd of "angry women". According to her, some of the people were drunk and were holding "batons, bats, and various metal objects."
Dmytro Mokhnachuk, head of the Kosmak community, said that the people who attacked the woman were blocking the road to prevent the alleged vehicles from the Territorial Center for Recruitment from passing.
According to him, since the beginning of the war, about a hundred people from the Kosmak community have gone to the front, and six heroes have died. Currently, more than 60 soldiers from the Kosmak community are on the front lines.
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