This is the moment a controversial Ukrainian MP was unceremoniously thrown into a wheelie bin and pelted with rubbish after being targeted by an angry mob.
Vitaly Zhuravsky, once a member of former President Viktor Yanukovich’s ruling party, was seized as he walked past crowds outside the parliament building in Kiev this morning.
Footage shows a group of men screaming abuse as they grab Zhuravsky and bundle him head first into the half full bin.
As he struggles to escape, one of the mob holds him down by the head while others throw water and rubbish over him.
As Zhuravsky appeals for calm, a car tyre is thrown at him hitting him on the head.
Zhuravsky, now a member of the Economic Development Party, authored a controversial bill in January severely tightening restrictions on anti-government protesters.
In the past, he authored a bill criminalising libel.
It came as Ukrainian MPs pledged to ratify a key pact with the EU and voted in favour of a plan to offer the separatist eastern part of the country limited self rule.
The pact would remove trade barriers and mean Ukraine would adopt EU standards in the areas of human rights, security and arms control.
Russia has previously opposed the free trade parts of the pact claiming its market could be flooded with cheap EU goods shipped via Ukraine.
In response Kiev agreed to delay implementing that part of the pact until 2016 although they will be able to freely export goods to the EU.
President Petro Poroshenko called the vote a ‘first but very decisive step’ toward bringing Ukraine fully into the European Union.
He said: ‘No nation has ever paid such a high price to become Europeans,’ referring to the bloody conflict that has gripped Ukraine since his predecessor, Viktor Yanukovich, walked away from the EU pact last November in favour of closer ties with Ukraine’s former Soviet master, Russia.
- Daily Mail
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