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After the racist incident with Azov battalion members in Mariupol was widely covered by the media, the national police has decided to really get to work. Instead of openly condemning this violent racist attack, they have organized a meeting and sat the “sides of the conflict” at the negotiating table. In their report they describe an attack where people were escaping from racists with batons as a “verbal conflict” and a “misunderstanding”. The post contains a lot of personal information about the victim, and not a word about the racists who attacked him and his friends. The police regards this as an isolated event. The victim was given a phone number of Donetsk regional police chief. It will certainly provide strong protection from racism for everyone.
Solidarization with racists is quite a common practice among Ukrainian authorities and the police. After a pogrom against the Roma in Odessa region in August 2016, local authorities and the police have given a press conference for “enraged” white residents who have in fact started the pogrom. They were promised that the authorities will organize a koridor for the Roma to leave the village, thus completing the pogrom.