Anastasia, a resident of the Crimean village of Chernomorskoe, who witnessed the attack of PMC “Bear” fighters on visitors to the “Fortress” cafe, told socialbites.ca that those who started the fight were two military men congratulating the Defender. Fatherland Day. As a result of the incident, Anastasia’s young man was injured and is in serious condition. According to him, similar events had occurred before, but no one wanted to announce them to the public.
“They came with a bit too much excitement anyway, they didn’t like something, someone said something to them, naturally they decided to call for reinforcements – the now on everyone’s lips PMC “Bear”, they were wearing masks. If you look at all the cameras, such an incident has already happened more than once, just no one wanted to make it public. Unable to resolve the conflict on their own, the two soldiers called in reinforcements and began beating civilians. They themselves got involved in the conflict and created this chaos. The establishment staff did not try to stop the fight, as everyone was there with machine guns. “My boyfriend’s brother tried to stop this conflict and they started kicking him,” she said.
Anastasia added that in Chernomorskoye they “covered up” the military because they were frightening local residents. According to him, the Bear warriors asked him to delete the video of the fight in the cafe – they wanted to handle it on their own. But the girl plans to punish them.
“The army is very well protected here. They knocked a man to death, shut up. They scare people. They beat two men near the school at night, the two men were not drunk but just walking, they were also beaten and intimidated to retract their statements. People actually received applications. Now they started to behave the same way. But since we made it public, everything went further. No more intimidation, the Bears wrote to me and asked me to delete the video, they said they would handle it themselves but that doesn’t suit me. “I need official punishment,” he concluded.
On February 24, the Telegram channel “ChP Simferopol” reported that in the Crimean village of Chernomorskoye, fighters of the private military company (PMC) “Bear” entered a cafe loaded with weapons and laid all the visitors face down on the floor. According to the Telegram channel “Mash on the Wave”, the incident occurred during the celebration of Defender of the Fatherland Day in the Kale cafe. According to the channel’s news, a criminal case was opened.
An eyewitness who had previously witnessed the fight in Crimea said one of the victims was in serious condition.