"Kolya, phone me": Beleniuk challenged Tyshchenko to a ring fight after the tomato incident near HACC
Kyiv • UNN
The MP and Olympic medalist offered his colleague to hold a duel in the ring. The reason was Tyshchenko's attempt to fight with a former Azov fighter near the High Anti-Corruption Court.

People's Deputy of Ukraine from the "Servant of the People" faction, Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling Zhan Beleniuk publicly offered his parliamentary colleague Mykola Tyshchenko to meet in the ring. Beleniuk published the video on his Instagram page, reports UNN.
Details
The reason for the appeal was a situation when Tyshchenko demonstrated a fighting stance near the building of the High Anti-Corruption Court in Kyiv in response to being pelted with tomatoes.
According to Beleniuk, he carefully examined his colleague's movements and offered to hold a duel with him.
I think my next fight will be with him. If the SAP gives such an opportunity. Kolya, phone me
Context
On July 3, the High Anti-Corruption Court began considering a motion for a preventive measure for Mykola Tyshchenko. He was notified of suspicion of soliciting undue benefit, money laundering, and submitting false information to the declaration.
On the same day, Tyshchenko was granted a preventive measure in the form of bail. Its amount is 10 million hryvnias.
Tyshchenko was also assigned procedural obligations, namely:
- to appear before the investigation and
court upon first request;
- to surrender
foreign passports for safekeeping;
- to wear an electronic means
of control.
After the court, Tyshchenko tried to fight with former "Azov" fighter Viktor Lakhno, who threw tomatoes at the MP.
Earlier, former "Azov" fighter Viktor Lakhno, who returned from Russian captivity, pelted with eggs former Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak. This happened in May of this year after a court hearing. At that time, a preventive measure was being chosen for Yermak in a case concerning the construction of residential residences in Kozyn near Kyiv.
Reminder
Earlier, People's Deputy Mykola Tyshchenko was notified of suspicion for the fact of illegal deprivation of liberty of a former serviceman in Dnipro.