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muriel_volestrangler

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1. Ukraine hostage crisis: Lutsk siege ends after president's bizarre video

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Jul 21, 2020, 06:23 PM

Jul 2020

A stand-off in Ukraine has ended with security forces freeing 10 hostages from a bus in the city of Lutsk and detaining the gunman, after a bizarre intervention by the president.
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The president then posted a brief video on his Facebook page in which he said in Russian the words: "Everyone should watch the 2005 film Earthlings."

One of the demands of the hostage-taker had been for the president to encourage people to watch the 2005 Hollywood-made animal rights documentary.

Shortly afterwards, Mr Avakov announced the end of the siege, and Mr Zelensky deleted the video.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53489527

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