A Verkhovna Rada deputy, leader of the faction of the People's Democratic Party and the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Valeriy Pustovoytenko, accuses Rada deputy Andriy Shkil (faction of the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc) of beating his son Vyacheslav Pustovoytenko.
Pustovoytenko stated this at a meeting of the Rada's conciliation council on Monday.
Pustovoytenko's statement says that Shkil, as well as Rada deputies Yuriy Orobets and Volodymyr Bondarenko (Our Ukraine bloc), burst onto the territory of the "Novy Druk" printing house (Brovary, Kyiv region) on October 2, and Shkil beat the co-owner of the printing house, Vyacheslav Pustovoytenko.
According to Valeriy Pustovoytenko, Shkil, Orobets and Bondarenko damaged material valuables at the printing house.
Pustovoytenko added that the police have opened a criminal case over Shkil's attack on his son.
Pustovoytenko told journalists that he intends to seek an apology from Shkil, Orobets and Bondarenko, as well as an investigation into the attack on his son.
"I will never forgive this," he said.
Pustovoytenko also said that he does not know the content of the printed products that "Novy Druk" was producing.
As the agency reported, on Saturday, October 2, the headquarters of presidential candidate and leader of the bloc of parties "Our Ukraine" Viktor Yushchenko announced the discovery in Brovary of about 9 tonnes of leaflets aimed at discrediting Yushchenko.
According to the press service of Yushchenko's headquarters, after this, Verkhovna Rada deputies Pavlo Kachur, Volodymyr Filenko, Yevhen Zhovtyak and Yuriy Boyko traveled to Brovary, where they found about 9 tonnes of A3-format posters of three types.
According to Kachur, law enforcement representatives called to the scene confirmed that the printed products have an openly provocative nature, however, according to Kachur, the police will not pursue this case.
Kachur said that the deputies turned to the local prosecutor's office.
According to Yushchenko's press service, on the evening of October 2, a group of deputies from the "Our Ukraine" and Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc factions traveled to "Novy Druk".
According to Orobets, upon arrival the deputies saw leaflets with an image of Yushchenko against the backdrop of US symbols being urgently removed from the workshops.
The deputies also found at the printing house a booklet "General Information about the Yushchenko-Tymoshenko Bloc," school diaries bearing images of presidential candidate and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and a large number of his election leaflets with the details of another printing house, as well as a comparative leaflet "Yanukovych-Yushchenko 10:0."
On July 3, the presidential election campaign began in Ukraine; the election will be held on October 31.