EL Kravchuk
Ukrainian singer EL Kravchuk got into a shootout in the 90s when returning from a tour in the Dnepropetrovsk region. He spoke about this story in an interview, which was published on February 26 on the RBC-Ukraine channel. on YouTube. According to the singer, those who fired at his bus wanted to stop the bus by shooting and take away the money.
The singer noted that he and his artists lay down on the floor, realizing that anything could happen, since the windows in the transport were pierced by bullets. EL Kravchuk added that later he began to go on tour with bodyguards.
Oksana Bilozir
Ukrainian singer Oksana Bilozir, ex-People's Deputy, former Minister of Culture, in May 2024, on the air of the “Liberty-Art” program on the “Muzvar” TV channel, stated for the first time that she was poisoned in 2005 chemical warfare agent “Novichok”.
“I lay in “Feofania” for a whole year. I was partially paralyzed and my face was completely deformed. In a word, a very difficult situation has developed. I survived out of spite. Now I understand that it was “Novichok”, because we already have more information about it,” said the artist.
She added that she asked to close the criminal case into her poisoning because she feared for her life.
“A criminal case was opened, after all, I am a first-level civil servant. But I asked the SBU to close this case, because I knew that I could not defend myself, and I needed to survive, to live,” the artist noted.
According to Bilozir, the poisoning was related to her professional activities as Minister of Culture. In 2020, she said that her poisoned in the Cabinet of Ministers, but did not specify what exactly.
Inna Belokon
In August 2016, Ukrainian actress Inna Belokon, who plays the role of Verka Serduchka’s mother, portrayed by Ukrainian showman Andrei Danilko, contacted the police with a statement that she had been beaten. This story is told on the website of the Poltava region publication.. It is noted that the artist received minor injuries.
The police told reporters that the actress was attacked and beaten by Roma on the territory of the Sorochinsky fair. The reasons for the attack were not disclosed.
Evgeniy Goncharenko
On August 1, 2021, Ukrainian singer Nadya Dorofeeva reported that a participant in her ballet, Ukrainian choreographer Evgeniy Goncharenko, was attacked. According to the artist, when he and his friends left the Kyiv club “Lift”, they first pushed him, and then hit him against the fence and struck him again. The dancer suffered a brain hemorrhage, underwent craniotomy and was put into a medically induced coma.
Later it turned out that a serviceman of the State Security Administration (SGO) of Ukraine was suspected of attacking Goncharenko. Music manager Anna Salata noted that the man attacked the dancer out of homophobia. On August 2, a suspected UGO serviceman was detained. On August 16, the dancer's mother reported that he came out of a coma. Later he had a titanium plate inserted instead of damaged bone.
Ensemble “Hutsulia”
The victims of the attack at the end of 2025 werePrivate members of the Ivano-Frankivsk ensemble “Hutsuliya” who were beaten on the night of December 7 at one of the gas stations in the city of Sheptytsky, Lviv region.
“A group of about six aggressive young men and three “young ladies” burst into the bus in an inadequate state, threw things around, provoked a conflict, and subsequently began physical violence. It was not a “fight”. It was a one-sided attack. The artists tried to calm the situation, defended the female cast,” wrote the head of the ensemble, Vasily Sheremeta.
He noted that during the fight the artists had “broken noses, a concussion, numerous bruises, bruised ribs, a compound fracture with displacement,” and the administrator of the group received bruised ribs and severe stress.
The press service of the Lviv region police “Suspilny” confirmed the fact of an attack on the artists of the Gutsuliya ensemble in the city of Sheptytsky.
