New Year’s Eve was no celebration for parliamentarian Serhiy Pashynsky as a man attacked him in the woods of Kyiv Oblast.
Pashynsky, a member of People’s Front party, was driving home with his wife around 5 p.m. on Dec. 31, when his vehicle nearly hit a minibus. It was parked on the road near Vasylkiv district in Kyiv Oblast. The parking lights were off.
The lawmaker wrote on his Facebook page that when he got out of car to see what’s going on, he saw a group of people near the minibus.
“When we asked to at least turn the parking lights on one of the men got really angry,” Pashynsky wrote. According to lawmaker, the man was drunk and lashed out at him with a bottle in his hand. “He threatened to kill us. I had a gun and fired a warning shot in the air. He didn’t stop and hit my head with a bottle. I had to shot his leg as I was lying on the ground.”
According to the lawmaker, they helped the man by putting a bandage on his wound and called the police.
“I’m almost fine, the attacker is at the hospital and police investigate the case,” Pashynsky wrote on Jan. 1.
Ukraine’s National Police confirmed that the minibus was blocking the road and didn’t have the parking lights on. The 38-year-old attacker is a resident of Vasylkiv district. The man has a criminal record, according to police.
