“Egg assassination attempt": Yanukovych in hospital

Ivano-Frankivsk, September 24, 2004. Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych gives a commentary after the “egg attack” at the regional clinical hospital.

Background: On September 24, 2004, during the presidential election campaign of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Ivano-Frankivsk, a first-year student, Dmytro Romaniuk, threw an egg at the presidential candidate. The politician was hospitalized.