Valentina, a retired florist in Ulyanovsk, was beaten three times by a man at the entrance of a Gulliver store a week earlier and now feels afraid to set up her small bouquet stand near that spot. The story circulated in Life.ru, which cites the SHOT Telegram channel for details of what happened. The attack left her shaken and hesitant to conduct business at the scene, even though she had depended on selling bouquets in retirement to supplement her pension.
Valentina said that after the attacker was detained, she spent the entire day at the police station, remaining there as the investigation moved forward. A former teacher of a music school with twenty‑five years of experience, she had built a simple routine of selling bouquets to earn a bit more money. She did not fully understand the events of the assault, but she recalled that the man who struck her smelled of alcohol. After the incident, she contacted the police and was taken to the hospital the next morning. The medical check did not reveal serious injuries, though the shock caused her blood pressure to rise that day.
On September 22, the pensioner was selling bouquets she had gathered herself at the entrance to the Gulliver store on the 50th Anniversary of Komsomol Boulevard in Ulyanovsk. At 23:05, a man in jeans and a black T‑shirt approached the woman sitting on a stool and delivered a hard punch to her face. Even as she raised her hands to shield herself, the blows continued. Local residents and police joined the search for the assailant, who was detained on September 28. In the interrogation video, he offered the words “it happened” to explain his actions, apologized to the pensioner, expressed remorse, and asked for understanding of his crime. Earlier, the retiree had scolded a teenager for picking flowers from a flower bed.