Doroshenko supporters were carrying slogans “Gurvits, come out!” and “We’ll take vengeance for Tomashchevskaya’s honor!”

The alleged offender, however, didn’t turn up for the tourney. Instead, activists from the pro-mayoral organization “For Free Odessa” met the ‘knight’ and his team. They were wearing doctor’s smocks and armed with syringes with brilliant green [an iodine-like tincture].

They said, atv.odessa.ua writes, “Doroshenko has escaped the city madhouse. He is our client. He is seriously ill.”

As a result of the brawl between the rival groups, “ZUBR” activists and police, who were there to provide public order, were covered with the green antiseptic liquid.

According to timer.od.ua, one of the pro-mayoral candidates used provocative tactics against the “Don Quixote”, trying to scare away his steed and setting off jumping jacks under its legs.

However, that didn’t stop the defenders of honor. Eager for revenge, they organized a kind of a boxing ring in front of the mayoral building and put a ceramic toad, which as they said embodied the mayor, in the ring’s corners.

Doroshenko defeated the ceramic “Gurvits” and left the scene on horseback.

“Gurvits lost the duel as he didn’t show up,” the ZUBR leader said, adding a couple of offensive words in his reference to the mayor.

After he had left the square, the duelist was detained by police. Three hours later he was released, but not before having his sword confiscated.