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Ukrainian LGBTQ activists fought & captured a group of Russian soldiers
LGBTQ Ukrainians captured a group of AWOL Russian soldiers hiding in a basement in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
LGBTQ activist Viktor Pylypenko said that the soldiers didn’t realize the basement they had chosen to hunker down in was also the office of a local LGBTQ group.
Pylypenko, a veteran who rejoined the army last week to aid in Ukrainian defense from Russia, said the LGBTQ group members both beat and captured the soldiers.
“We are confronting a tyrannical, homophobic enemy,” Pylypenko said.
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