We have a confirmation concerning employees of the Ministry's of Emergencies of Ukraine which were involved in installation of outdoor campaign advertising for the potential candidate in majoritarian district #101 Vitalii Hrushevskyi in Haivoron city.
Witnesses provided the original photos of the event, which show how the picture of Vitalii Hrushevskyi is being mounted onto the billboard. The billboard depicts a traditional in Kirovohrad oblast campaign advertising from the Party of Regions: "A unified team, hot line of Serhii Larin 0 800 500 238" and the name of the politician - "Vitalii Hrushevskyi".
The novelty became bringing firefighters to the fight for voter's support. This is the case when the administrative resource is used for personal purpose:
- attracting employees of state administrations to deal with activities and events unrelated to their duties;
- using the service vehicle.
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