{"id":1254716,"date":"2025-07-02T09:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/in-kyiv-a-taxi-driver-beat-up-a-famous-singer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:44:49","slug":"in-kyiv-a-taxi-driver-beat-up-a-famous-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-kyiv-a-taxi-driver-beat-up-a-famous-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kyiv, a taxi driver beat up a famous singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"193\"><strong>A 63-year-old taxi driver was detained in Kyiv for hitting singer Tonya Matvienko during a ride.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"193\"> The capital&#8217;s police reported this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"396\"> It was established that the detainee is a local resident. A criminal case was opened on the fact of the beating under Part 1 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (battery and torture). The offender faces a fine, community service or correctional labor.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"398\" data-end=\"601\"> The incident occurred on June 30 during a ride on the Bolt service. According to Matvienko, the driver rudely responded to a request to close the window due to a draft and ignored the request, refusing to close the windows due to the heat.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"863\"> &#8220;The situation escalated into an inappropriate conversation, I asked him to stop the car, he refused, I had to open the door while driving, after which he stopped. I got out, slammed the door, then he got out and hit me first in the head, then in the shoulder,&#8221; the singer said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"902\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The pre-trial investigation is currently ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"902\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"902\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year-old taxi driver was detained in Kyiv for hitting singer Tonya Matvienko during a ride. The capital&#8217;s police reported this. It was established that the detainee is a local resident. A criminal case was opened on the fact of the beating under Part 1 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (battery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1254708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875,76928],"class_list":["post-1254716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-kyiv-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}