On July 13, the head of the Topilne branch of the Rozhyshche district organization of the Ukrainian People's Party, Oleksandr Hetman, was hit by an unknown car and beaten with a stick by one of the passengers of the vehicle. The district leadership of the UNP regards this as an attempt to intimidate the head of the organization, Yuliya Tymoshchuk, press secretary of the Volyn regional organization of the UNP, told the Western Information Corporation on July 15.\n\nThe leadership of the Rozhyshche district organization of the UNP published a statement in which it demands an end to the pressure and threats that continue to be directed at its members. The statement cites the example of the beating of the head of the Topilne branch of the Rozhyshche district organization of the Ukrainian People's Party, Oleksandr Hetman.\n\nOn July 13 at about 9 p.m., Oleksandr Hetman was riding a bicycle in the direction from the city of Rozhyshche to the village of Topilne in the Rozhyshche district. In the middle of the road, an unknown car hit him, and one of the passengers of this vehicle beat him with a stick. The victim was taken to the district hospital with bodily injuries; the car fled the scene.\n\nIn this regard, the leadership of the district organization of the UNP sent a corresponding statement addressed to the head of the regional organization of the UNP, People's Deputy of Ukraine Borys Zahreva, the head of the Regional State Administration Volodymyr Bondar, and the head of the Rozhyshche district council Dmytro Sendetskyi. The statement says that "even during the elections, as a result of the criminal inaction of the legal protection bodies, members of the organization were repeatedly subjected to pressure and persecution, about which the regional and district leadership and law enforcement agencies were informed."\n\n"Given that recently Oleksandr Hetman has also been receiving threats containing intimidation about causing harm to his health and life, the leadership of the Rozhyshche district organization of the UNP demands that the regional and district authorities put an end to these criminal actions of destructive forces, and we also demand a proper legal assessment from the law enforcement agencies of the district and region," the document says.