«I'll Chase You the F*ck Out». Fired Military Prosecutor Threatened Journalist, Then Attacked Cameraman (Video)

Warning. The speech of the former prosecutor contains obscene language.

Former military prosecutor Vitaly Opanasenko, fired in the autumn from the Main Military Prosecutor's Office by order of Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka, tried to threaten journalist Vasily Krutchak on the street, after which he attempted to attack the cameraman filming the scene. The video was published on Facebook by journalist Yaroslav Bugakov.

Yaroslav Bugakov
journalist

Today, during a walk along Saksahanskoho Street, a meeting took place between Vitalka Opanasenko, a former prosecutor fired from the prosecution service, and journalist Vasily Krutchak, to whom Vitalka once promised to burn his car during a private conversation, after which the car did burn down. This is my first meeting with Vitalka, but I can note that if the hereditary prosecutor Opanasenko had not gone to the posh law faculty of the Taras Shevchenko institute back in the day, he would have made an excellent criminal, since he spent the whole meeting speaking exclusively in prison slang, mixing choice thieves' cant with threats against the journalist.

Updated December 17, 17:02. The journalist filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office over threats from Vitaly Opanasenko. Yaroslav Bugakov reported this on his Facebook page. Journalists note that the threats made by Opanasenko in February 2019 were carried out.

On February 22, journalist Vasily Krutchak had his car set on fire. This happened after he received threats to burn his car from military prosecutor Vitaly Opanasenko. Vasily Krutchak was preparing an investigation into the military prosecutor, during which he found out that prosecutor Opanasenko uses a Lexus jeep registered to his 80-year-old grandmother. 

In 2015, Vitaly Opanasenko was fired from the Prosecutor General's Office. He then became a figure in a case over falsifying an expert examination in criminal proceedings. Later Opanasenko returned to work, but this time at the Main Military Prosecutor's Office. Recently, one of the witnesses in the «helicopter case» stated that he had agreed with Opanasenko to incriminate himself in a crime in order to testify against former minister Klymenko and enable the seizure of his assets. In exchange, chief military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios helped close cases against him in other agencies.