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Crimean activist Volodymyr Balukh, beaten in Kiev, is in a drug-induced coma. Doctors say his condition is expected, said People’s Deputy Irina Gerashchenko.
The condition of former Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh, who was hospitalized after being beaten in Kiev, remains dire. On September 12, the people’s deputy of “European Solidarity” Irina Gerashchenko wrote about this on Facebook.
According to the attending physicians, there were no surprises.
“It takes time. Everything that is needed is available. Under control,” Gerashchenko quoted the doctors.
In the comments, he added that the patient was still unconscious.
Balukh was beaten on the night of September 8 in Kiev near the Hydropark. His arm and collarbone were broken and he was also diagnosed with a severe traumatic brain injury. Balukh was transferred unconscious to the Kiev City Clinical Emergency Hospital at noon on 8 September, on the night of his operation. Balukh went into a drug-induced coma.
Police were informed that the victim did not find a phone or bank card during the hospitalization, but later they reported that they had found her bag, of which “nothing had been missing previously.” Compliance with the law qualified the incident as a robbery, they looking for witnesses to the attack.
The president’s office demanded a swift and thorough investigation, without ruling out a political version of the attack.
Balukh was scheduled to run in local elections in the Kiev region of “European Solidarity”.
Farmer Balukh was detained in the Russian annexed Crimea after a search in December 2016. According to the FSB, bullets were found in the attic of his house and TNT sticks. Lawyers and human rights activists said that Balukh was the victim of repression for his pro-Ukrainian position, due to the Ukrainian flag, which was hung in the courtyard of his house.
In July 2018, in the total of two criminal cases, Balukh was sentenced to five years in a general regime colony and a fine of 10,000 rubles. (about 4 thousand UAH). The Ukrainian declared a political motive for the persecution.
On September 7, 2019, Balukh returned to Ukraine as part of the detainee exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
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