Vandals Ransack Ukraine LGBTQ Center, Savagely Attack One Of Its Workers

thegailygrind.com:

By air, land, and sea, Russia has launched a devastating attack on Ukraine, a European democracy of 44 million people A group of armed vandals took advantage of the wartime chaos to ransack an LGBTQ center in the capital city of Kyiv, attacking the center’s workers near midnight on Tuesday. “the group of men spent an hour trying to break down the front door of the LGBT Human Rights Nash Mir Center.

As the men tried, four center employees who reside on the premises contacted the police. However, police didn’t respond, possibly due to the country being under siege by Russian forces,” reports LGBTQ Nation. “After the vandals successfully knocked down the front door, they proceeded to trash and steal from the offices.

One vandal even ‘seriously’ bit one of the center’s workers, injuring them.” The center has helped educate and protect the legal rights of the local queer community for almost 20 years.

Now, the organization is asking for donations to help recover from the vandals’ attack. Some LGBTQ people in Ukraine are now fearing that they will be targeted if Russia occupies the country. “That would mean a direct threat to me and especially, well, to me and to the person I love,” Iulia, an 18-year-old law student, told CBS News.