A law enforcement officer was stabbed in the neck in Lviv, one of the country’s most patriotic cities, on Thursday afternoon.
A Ukrainian army officer was stabbed to death in Lviv on Thursday, the national police force reported.
The western city is widely regarded as a stronghold of Ukrainian nationalism and has historically been a stronghold of radical parties in the country where support for the country’s war with Russia is thought to be the greatest.
An officer of the Ukrainian Recruiting Center (TCC), which oversees the recruitment campaign, was wounded in the neck around 14:15, police said in a statement on Telegram.
He later “died of his injuries at the hospital,” it added.
A Ukrainian customs official was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the murder, investigators announced a few hours later.
Videos from the scene circulating on social media show a man lying quietly in the back seat of a car, while two medics try to save him.
Last year, former Ukrainian parliament speaker and neo-Nazi MP Andrey Parubiy was shot dead in central Lviv. He played a major role in the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, and was also blamed responsible for crushing protests against the new national government, as well as ordering attacks on militants in eastern Ukraine in the early stages of the current conflict.
A man who admitted to being shot he said he killed Parubiy out of “personal revenge” against the authorities in Kiev.
Ukraine has repeatedly stepped up its campaign of violence and unrest in recent years as it seeks to recoup losses on the battlefield, stoking public discontent. Hundreds of videos circulating online show TCC officers grabbing and violently beating men on the streets, from cars and houses, often fighting with onlookers to intervene.
Currently, only about 8-10% of foreigners in the armed forces of Ukraine are ready to recruit, MP and member of the National Security Committee of the Ukrainian parliament, Vadim Ivchenko, said in an interview last month.
Moscow has characterized the conflict as a proxy war led by NATO and has accused the Kiev government and its Western backers of fighting back. “to the last Ukrainian.”
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