In December 2016, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was handed a bouquet of roses, lifted, and then carried away by Oleh Barna, a member of president Petro Poroshenko’s party.
In 2014, after tensions arose as a result of the Malaysian air crash, Svoboda Party member Ihor Miroshychenko began shoving the opposition Party of Regions member Mykola Levchenko.
In the same year, Vitaly Zhuravsky, a popular politician from Kiev came face-to-face with an angry mob and was thrown into a dustbin. This was repeated for around a dozen politicians.
These aren’t scenes from Word Wrestling Entertainment-style professional events, but actual incidents that took place in Ukrainian parliament. The latest instance shows that violence in the country’s parliament shows no signs of abating.
Opposition Bloc head Yuri Boiko was listening calmly to Radical Party head Oleh Lyashko’s speech in parliament on Monday. “By the way, I also want to ask the SBU [Security Service of Ukraine] why they visit Moscow and are not yet in jail,” Lyashko asked at the end before things took a turn for the worse.
Boiko, angered at this suggestion that he had links to Putin and the Kremlin, jumped to his feet and threw a couple of punches at his opponent. Lyashko once again took to the stage and called Boiko a “Moscow louse”, only for similar treatment to be meted out to him.
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