Odessa police intervene after tram passenger from Russian-speaking majority abused in Ukrainian city (VIDEO)

Viral footage has emerged

Viral footage has emerged of a row on public transport in Ukraine, after an elderly woman demanded another passenger stop speaking in Russian. It happened in Odessa, a major city on the country’s Black Sea coast.

News agency RIA Novosti reported that the altercation began when the woman accused a fellow traveller on a local tram of speaking in a “foreign” language, demanding she switch to Ukrainian, and turning on bystanders who had tried to intervene. One passenger, identifying himself as a police officer, asked her “do you want to go to jail?” He added that, if she wanted to continue to rail against those speaking the language, she could “go whistle in Lviv or Ternopil.”

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