{"id":7774,"date":"2020-02-24T19:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T23:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2020-02-24T19:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T23:16:58","slug":"people-of-ukraine-react-adversely-to-fellow-countrymen-with-coronavirus-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=7774","title":{"rendered":"People of Ukraine React Adversely to Fellow Countrymen with Coronavirus (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ukrainian villagers STONE buses bringing countrymen evacuated from Wuhan to coronavirus quarantine (VIDEOS)<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_7775\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7775\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/5e4eee722030275c9835a3f5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7775\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/5e4eee722030275c9835a3f5.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/5e4eee722030275c9835a3f5-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A masked protester throws a brick at buses carrying Ukrainian coronavirus evacuees from China, in Novye Sanzhary, Poltava region, February 20, 2020 \u00a9  REUTERS\/Valentyn Ogirenko<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainians evacuated from Wuhan, China, have been less than welcomed at a village hosting the coronavirus quarantine facility. Videos show locals throwing stones at buses with evacuees, burning tires and clashing with police.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of villagers first attempted to block the road leading to Novye Sanzhary, in the Poltava region of central Ukraine, and stop the government\u2019s plan to quarantine the Ukrainian evacuees from Wuhan there. Their roadblocks were removed by force, with police using armored vehicles and arresting several locals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Riot police violently quash <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> quarantine protesters in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukrainian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukrainian<\/a> village<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6emEcaEANu\">https:\/\/t.co\/6emEcaEANu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4T9gT2OjDd\">pic.twitter.com\/4T9gT2OjDd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/1230581808259117057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Later on Thursday, the villagers gathered outside the local medical facility and threw stones at the buses bringing in the evacuees, smashing windows and damaging the vehicles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukrainian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukrainian<\/a> protesters hurl stones at buses carrying <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wuhan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wuhan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> evacuees in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NovyeSanzhary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NovyeSanzhary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6emEcaEANu\">https:\/\/t.co\/6emEcaEANu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VgZ9wk9uwg\">pic.twitter.com\/VgZ9wk9uwg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/1230585567135531008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI urge the protesters not to violate the law. All attempts to commit offenses will be stopped,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Ivan Vygovsky, head of the Poltava regional police, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>This is not the first such protest in Ukraine. Earlier this week, roadblocks were set up in the Ternopil and Lviv regions in the west, following rumors that the government was planning to set up quarantine facilities there.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also appealed to the locals to show compassion for about 70 people who had been evacuated from China\u2019s Hebei province on a charter flight.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUnfortunately, not all of us reacted humanely,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Zelensky said on his Facebook page.\u00a0<em>\u201cAttempts to block roads, block hospitals, and prevent Ukrainian citizens from entering the country \u2013 this is far from showing the best side of our national character.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/koshmar_liberal\/status\/1230463246685081600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1230463246685081600&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F481320-ukraine-coronavirus-quarantine-clashes%2F<\/p>\n<p>The novel coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, has infected over 75,000 people worldwide and caused more than 2,000 deaths in the two months since the first case was recorded in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/481320-ukraine-coronavirus-quarantine-clashes\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/481320-ukraine-coronavirus-quarantine-clashes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koshmar_liberal\/status\/1230463246685081600\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"5\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian villagers STONE buses bringing countrymen evacuated from Wuhan to coronavirus quarantine (VIDEOS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}