Oleh Lyashko Gets Vaseline Gift Ahead of Court Hearing

Prosecutors will ask for the politician to be detained without the option of bail.

Today the Boryspil City District Court will consider the prosecutors' motion to impose a preventive measure on former MP Oleh Lyashko in the form of detention without the alternative of bail. Earlier, the politician was served with a suspicion of assaulting an official after a brawl in the official delegations hall of Boryspil airport with People's Deputy Andriy Herus.

Journalists and supporters of the former MP gathered outside the court. Among them, a group of activists gave the leader of the Radical Party a jar of vaseline.  The corresponding video was published on his Facebook page by a representative of the Vyrok movement, Vasyl Krutchak. 

The video shows Oleh Lyashko, accompanied by guards, walking toward the entrance of the courthouse when activists throw vaseline at him, after which the politician's guards open umbrellas. According to the Telegram channel of the Strana publication, these were condoms filled with vaseline. 

Vasyl Krutchak
blogger

We, representatives of the Vyrok movement, are the only ones who support Oleh Lyashko with real actions. Today, vaseline was handed to Lyashko at the Boryspil District Court. Vaseline is the thing that will definitely come in handy for Oleh Valeryevich in the near future

What happened earlier?

On November 6, Lyashko published a recording of the scuffle with People's Deputy from Servant of the People and head of the energy committee Andriy Herus. In the video, Oleh Lyashko accused Andriy Herus of importing electricity from the Russian Federation and asked at whose expense Herus was in the official delegations hall of the airport. The meeting ended in a brawl, and the People's Deputy from Servant of the People had his shirt torn.

On November 11, Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Andriy Herus from his post as his official representative in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.