In the city of Yelets, Lipetsk region of Russia, the head of the surgical department of the local hospital, Viktor Pavlenko, was dismissed. He was accused of discrediting the Russian armed forces. The doctor is a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and was going to run from it to the city council in the fall.

According to SOTA, Pavlenko did not make official anti-war statements.. The Lipetsk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation reports that the conflict between Pavlenko and local authorities was purely private. It arose on June 17, when the doctor and colleagues celebrated their professional holiday - Medic's Day - at the recreation center near Yelets, where at the same time the mayor of Yelets Evgeny Borovskikh and his entourage, including employees of the local prosecutor's office and the FSB of Russia, were staying.

There, according to the information of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, those accompanying the mayor heard that Pavlenko shouted out the phrase " The police squad they called handcuffed the 67-year-old surgeon and took him to the district police department.

After several hours of interrogation, Pavlenko confessed.

After that, the peasant was taken to the department, where they began to threaten to “push the nose down the throat,” writes the regional branch of the Communist Party. A protocol was drawn up against the surgeon for " Later, Pavlenko was “forced to write a statement about the transition from the head to ordinary doctors”.

On June 20, he was dismissed from the post of head of the surgical department of the hospital.. An administrative case has been opened against Pavlenko under the article on "

Surgeon Viktor Pavlenko has over forty years of experience. He graduated from the Medical Institute in Luhansk.