"Poured Urine On Him": Sharii Reports Attack on Activist Regor, Suspected of Beating Journalist

Regor himself is suspected of attacking a journalist from Sharij.net and pouring urine on him.

Ukrainian activist Vitaly Regor, a member of far-right nationalist organizations, who is suspected of deliberately beating Dmitry Kucher, a journalist for the online outlet Sharij.net, has been attacked.

This was reported today, Tuesday, December 31, by video blogger Anatoly Sharij, citing a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to Sharij, Regor was waylaid outside his own building and given urine to drink. The blogger said he condemns "such methods," but expressed the opinion that those "who beat the journalist on the legs should now take care of their own legs."

In his video blog, Sharij added that after the attack Regor called the police but decided not to tell law enforcement that he had been doused with urine, and together with his lawyer intends to "work out the version that he was supposedly doused with some unknown substance." The blogger also published video of the probable attack on Regor.

On December 24, Olga Sharij, chief editor of Sharij.net and wife of Anatoly Sharij, reported the attack on Sharij.net journalist Dmitry Kucher near the court where hearings were held in the case of volunteer Yulia Kuzmenko, suspected of murdering Pavel Sheremet. She said the journalist was "beaten with feet and doused with urine," and blamed "the crowd together with Sternenko (Sergei Sternenko, — ed.)."

"Vladimir Alexandrovich (Zelensky, — ed.), will the law work for you or why were you elected? If the law simply does not work, tell us, and we will otherwise protect our people from ****** ******* [bad people], whom the whole country hates," Sharij wrote on her Facebook page.

In addition, the outlet Strana reported threats against its journalist.

On December 28, a court imposed a preventive measure on Vitaly Regor, one of the probable attackers of Kucher, an activist: night-time house arrest from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. until February 25. He is suspected of violating four articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

• a crime committed by a group of persons without prior conspiracy;
• persecution of a journalist for performing his professional duties by a group of persons;
  
• hooliganism committed by a group of persons;
  
• intentional infliction on a journalist of beatings or minor or moderate bodily injuries in connection with his lawful professional activity.
  

In court, Regor claimed he did not pour urine on the journalist, and that the journalist "wet himself from fright."

Today Olga Sharij also commented on reports of the attack on Regor himself, noting that "both the courts and the police must work in the country to prevent such situations."

"We know how unpleasant it is when your people are attacked for nothing... When you are buying Christmas presents and journalists call you with news like this. Our mood was slightly spoiled, but there is no point in holding a grudge. So let him not be upset. The old year is leaving, the new one is coming! For our part, we strongly condemn such actions, and we hope that the people who committed this petty hooliganism will feel ashamed," she wrote on Facebook.