The Coalition of Participants in the Orange Revolution has stated that it was one of its activists that threw sauerkraut at the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and its faction in Russia's State Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, at a press conference in Kyiv.
“Today during a press conference, two activists of the coalition, Oleksandr Misiura and Tetiana Lykhodeyeva, threw sauerkraut at him [Zhirinovsky],” the coalition leader, Serhiy Melnychenko, wrote on Facebook.
According to Melnychenko, several generals of Russia’s Federal Security Service took Lykhodeyeva out of the press centre and took down her passport data.
“The activist of the coalition has had to go into hiding at the moment to avoid punishment,” Melnychenko wrote.
As reported, a Ukrainian female journalist threw some sauerkraut at Vladimir Zhirinovsky, during a press conference in Kyiv. The woman was shouting “Ukrainophobe! Chauvinists, get out of Ukraine!”
Zhirinovsky was unhurt. His guards quickly took the woman and her supporters out of the press center.
“She was paid to do this – she was told to come in and disrupt the press conference,” the Russian politician said.
