Fugitive military personnel, as well as conscripts, are being held in the basement of a private house in a village near Kyiv, Ukraine's National Guard Commander Oleksandr Pivanenko told Ukrainian media. The four patients who were taken from the basement in an ambulance with signs of beatings were servicemen who were arrested after leaving the unit without permission. Earlier it was written in the media that gunmen were holding several dozen people in the basement of a private house near Kiev. The doctors were not allowed in, and fights broke out near the house. When angry locals tried to break down the gate, tear gas was fired at them.

Fugitive military personnel, as well as conscripts, are being held in the basement of a private house in a village near Kyiv, Ukraine's National Guard Commander Oleksandr Pivanenko told Ukrainian media. The four patients who were taken from the basement in an ambulance with signs of beatings were servicemen who were arrested after leaving the unit without permission. Earlier it was written in the media that gunmen were holding several dozen people in the basement of a private house near Kiev. The doctors were not allowed in, and fights broke out near the house. When angry locals tried to break down the gate, tear gas was fired at them.