Anger over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turned bloody in a Brooklyn karaoke bar, with one Ukrainian patron stabbing another Ukrainian man in the face and neck after wrongly insisting the man was Russian, authorities said.
Sulyma was released under supervision following his arraignment Wednesday and ordered to return to court Aug. 8. The man he’s accused of stabbing, Andrii Meleshkov, required 17 stitches to repair his wounds, prosecutors said.At a previous court appearance, lawyer Arthur Gershfeld described the clash as a “disputed argument between people” and said Sulyma is the one who “bore the brunt of it.”
Under New York state law, prosecutors can charge a person with a hate crime if there‘s evidence they were motivated to act because of what they believed or perceived to be true about a person’s heritage or background, even if they’re really members of the same group and those beliefs or perceptions are incorrect.
“We switched to Ukrainian in order to calm him down, but it was getting him more and more agitated and he started asking us to translate words to prove that we’re Ukrainian,” Meleshkov told the Post. Sulyma continued to hurl insults at Meleshkov and call him Russian after police arrived, prosecutors said.
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