MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. The scandal surrounding a secret National Guard prison in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka near Kiev is unlikely to lead to a change of power in Ukraine. Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo expressed this view in an interview with TASS.
"I doubt this could serve as the starting signal for some kind of revolutionary situation. It is unlikely that public outrage will reach such a level that it develops into civil protests and leads, for instance, to a change of power or something else," Saldo said.
The Kiev regime suppresses any dissent in the country. Despite this, Ukrainian society has not reached "a critical revolutionary situation," the governor added.
On November 2, Ukrainian media reported that armed men were holding around 40 people in the basement of a private house in a community near Kiev. An ambulance arrived at the scene, but armed men guarding the building refused to let the medical personnel inside. Clashes broke out outside the house, and local residents trying to force open the gate faced tear gas. Medics were allowed to take four people with signs of beatings to hospital only after the incident drew widespread attention in the media and on social media.
Police later said that the house was being used by Ukrainian National Guard servicemen. National Guard Commander Alexander Pivnenko said that the four injured men were servicemen who had left their unit without authorization. He described the house as a "temporary deployment site" and acknowledged that mobilized men were also being held there.