‘Educational conversations’: How rioters in Lviv who flipped a recruiter’s car wound up on camera, praising Ukraine’s military and vowing to enlist

According to Meduza, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, several people who had clashed with staff at a territorial recruitment center—the offices that oversee Ukraine's contentious military draft—appeared on video today apologizing to soldiers and pledging to enlist. The videos were posted by Anton Petrovsky, a veteran of Ukraine's Armed Forces, and Dmytro Kukharchuk, a deputy commander of the third Army Corps. They described the interactions as 'educational conversations' they held with those involved in the disturbances, including people who had flipped a recruiter's car.

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