Rustam Kolesnik - Justice for Journalists

Rustam Kolesnik

Affiliated media: PRAVO.UA, Chief-editor

Incident date: June 14, 2021

Attack type:

  • Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: PRAVO.UA

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv

Additional information:

Rustam Kolesnik, chief-editor of the PRAVO.UA, was attacked. The car driven by Kolesnik was blocked on Parkova Alley in Kyiv. An unknown assailant damaged the car with a knife and threatened Kolesnik with it. Police officers who were passing by stopped the illegal actions and detained the assailant.

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