{"id":317149,"date":"2023-05-05T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/viral-video-russian-official-snatches-flag-ukraine-mp-whacks-him\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:29:00","slug":"viral-video-russian-official-snatches-flag-ukraine-mp-whacks-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/viral-video-russian-official-snatches-flag-ukraine-mp-whacks-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Video: Russian Official Snatches Flag, Ukraine MP Whacks Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Viral Video: Russian Official Snatches Flag, Ukraine MP Whacks Him\" alt=\"Viral Video: Russian Official Snatches Flag, Ukraine MP Whacks Him\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/usgnttg8_russia-ukraine-fight-bsec_625x300_05_May_23.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Ukrainian Oleksandr Marikovskyi rained punches on the Russian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Russian representative snatched a Ukraine flag from a lawmaker of the country, triggering a one-on-one fight at an international conference, showed a viral video this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic incident played out in Turkey capital Ankara during the 61st Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Community on Thursday, over 14 months after Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#x1f94a; In Ankara &#x1f1f9;&#x1f1f7;, during the events of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Community, the representative of Russia &#x1f1f7;&#x1f1fa; tore the flag of Ukraine &#x1f1fa;&#x1f1e6; from the hands of a &#x1f1fa;&#x1f1e6; Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The &#x1f1fa;&#x1f1e6; MP then punched the Russian in the face. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zUM8oK4IyN\">pic.twitter.com\/zUM8oK4IyN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officejjsmart\/status\/1654169241237454876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ukrainian Oleksandr Marikovskyi was seen holding his country&#8217;s flag when the unidentified Russian representative approached him, ripped his flag and started walking away, the video showed.<\/p>\n<p>The MP gave him a chase and rained punches. He was intercepted by other officials but after he snatched the flag back.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a video of the incident on Facebook, he wrote in Ukrainian: &#8220;Paws away from our flag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others present at the spot were seen filming the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The flare-up in tensions between the two warring nations come a day after Russia claimed Ukraine tried to assassinate President Vladimir Putin with a drone attack on the Kremlin, an accusation denied by Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sea Economic Community was formed over 30 years ago and both Russia and Ukraine are its members. It aims at &#8220;working towards peace, stability and prosperity in the Black Sea region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/video-ukraine-mp-punches-russian-representative-at-global-meet-4007020\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Ukrainian Oleksandr Marikovskyi rained punches on the Russian. A Russian representative snatched a Ukraine flag from a lawmaker of the country, triggering a one-on-one fight at an international conference, showed a viral video this morning. The dramatic incident played out in Turkey capital Ankara during the 61st Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1914,10534],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}