Lawmaker and leader of the Right Sector nationalist party Dmytro Yarosh was wounded in the fighting in Pisky village near Donetsk airport on the morning of Jan. 21.
Yarosh was wounded by the splinters of a Grad missile launched
by the separatist rebels. According to the Right Sector’s spokesman Artem
Skoropadsky, Yarosh has been evacuated from the danger zone immediately, and is
safe now.
On the day he was injured Yarosh was in the war zone in Ukraine’s east not as a lawmaker, but as a member of the Right Sector’s volunteer
battalion Ukrainian Volunteer Corpus.
“The parliamentary activity is the secondary
responsibility for Yarosh. Nowadays his primary task is being on the front line,”
said Skoropadskiy.
Blogger Olena Bilozirska, who fights at the same
battalion as Yarosh, wrote on her Facebook timeline that Yarosh had received
two injuries.
“One fragment (of a missile) hurt him in the eye,
another one smashed his arm. He was taken to the hospital then. Two of his
bodyguards have been injured as well,” Bilozerska said referring to the battalion
chief of staff’s information.
Yuriy Butusov, a journalist and also a member of the battalion,
has posted a preliminary doctor report on Yarosh`s health condition.
“It’s a comminuted open fracture of the upper arm. The
head injury is lesser – a helmet saved him,” he wrote.
