The girl published the video and tried to make the story public. It turned out that Vabix constantly attacks Ukrainian refugees who told their stories to Radio Liberty. Oleksandr Vabiks attacked Olena and Gabriel, whose parents moved to Switzerland from Belarus many years ago, when he heard that she addressed her husband in Ukrainian.
The couple said that the aggressive Russian-speaking man began insulting the couple, including motherfuckers, and threatening them: "I am a Russian person, we will kill you, bitch, and we will kill you until the end!" he declared.
Gabriel said that the attacker openly expressed his support for the war that Russia is waging in Ukraine, and when he started dialing the number of the police, the man attacked him and said: "Are you calling trash? I'll break you myself! We'll kill you, f***!" "He declared that he supports this whole war, Putin's regime. He considers himself a Russian, he said that we need to be killed. He realized that my wife is a Ukrainian refugee, and began to act aggressively.
It was the first time I encountered something like this," said Gabriel Sharov, who tried to calm down the aggressive man, but he attacked him. When Gabriel and other passengers called the police, the aggressor tried to hide, but the police found him and removed him from the train. Bern cantonal police later confirmed the incident. After Olena and Gabriel told what happened on the train, several more Ukrainian women told about similar attacks on them by an aggressive Russian-speaker.
Oleksandr Vabiks attacked them in public transport, shops, gyms and swimming pools in the cities of Zurich, Bern and Geneva. All of these women recognized Wabix or described his appearance very similarly. Maria Lembak from Kyiv, who left for Switzerland with her daughter as a refugee after the start of a full-scale war. She was attacked in April 2025, when she was traveling with her friend and two five-year-old children on tram number 8 in the city of Bern.
Vabix was sitting behind her and attacked when he heard the Ukrainian language. "He leaned over to me and started talking in my ear: "You, Ukrainian woman, are a bitch. We will kill you, butcher your children. Now you will get off the tram, and I will see at which stop you will get off. And that's it, you're done there. We will rape you, and your children too," she says.
"I tell him: 'What do you need from me?' And he tells me: "Speak in English, because I don't understand this Khokhlyat language of yours. " I started to speak English, and I saw that he did not know it at all: he ran out of words because he does not understand anything in English, - says Maria. - In the tram, people understood what happened. I began to translate what he said to them.
He left when he saw that I was calling the police - even though he had said earlier that the police would not do anything to him. " Maria took a picture of the man on the tram and went to the nearest police station to write a report on him. But the police said that they could not find him, and then said that it was not a criminal case because he did not hit her.
But she published the photo, and then the police learned the name and name of the aggressor and stated that they had a conversation with him. Maria came to the station with another Ukrainian woman who was attacked by Vabix. "She also wanted to write a statement. At first, the police did not want to accept her, but later they agreed. We know that he systematically insults Ukrainians, especially women with children.
And the police do nothing! The investigator told me that the woman who was with him reported that it was I who allegedly provoked him!" - Maria says that now her appeal has reached the prosecutor's office, and in the future there will be a trial in the case of the attack on her. Another Ukrainian woman who recognized the man in the video from the train is Olga, who moved to Switzerland this year.
She and her sister Vabiks were attacked near a lake in Geneva, after the girls made remarks to him while he was pulling the swans. "The swan didn't like it - he defended himself, pinched him. This lasted for several minutes. A man standing nearby made a remark to this person, then my sister asked him to stop touching the swan.
He didn't like it - he started shouting at her: "Who are you? Do you know who I am? And where are you from?" He shouted offensive and aggressive phrases: "Khokhli must be killed!", "I'll hit you now!", "I'll fuck you!" - says Olga, whose sister went to the toilet, but Vabiks tried to break the door. Olga recorded this incident on video. But she did not write a statement to the police, because they said that Vabiks would find out her address and name.
The man who attacked the family on the train was previously identified as Oleksandr Vabiks, a citizen of Latvia and a native of Riga. The State Security Service of Latvia opened a criminal case against him under the article about inciting national enmity, which is connected with violence and threats. According to social networks, Vabix has been living in Switzerland, in Zurich, for the past few months.
He studied at the gymnasium in Riga, the London College of Computer and Management Sciences and the Canterbury University of Christ Church. Cursing with Ukrainian women, he claimed that he had been living in Switzerland for 15 years. According to Olena Dudnyk, Oleksandr worked as a cook at a food processing plant that serves commercial aircraft at the Zurich airport. After the incident, he was released: Ukrainians were informed about this by airport employees.
Latvian mass media found Vabiks in the local registry of non-payers of alimony, he was also recognized by acquaintances. He lives in Bern together with Olena Ch. from Odesa, who has refugee status in Switzerland. When the Ukrainian women reported Vabiks to the police, she testified in his favor, saying that they attacked him or provoked him. On Oleksandr's Facebook pages, you can find photos in the same hoodie in which he was filmed during the attack on the train.
Vabix does not hide his pro-Russian views: in January 2024, he published a photo in a T-shirt with the inscription "Russia in my heart", and even earlier - in 2017 - a photo taken on Red Square in Moscow. On his arm is a tattoo with the image of a nesting doll. The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Heorhiy Tykhi, called the video on the X social network, in which Vabix attacks Olena Dudnyk, "terrible. " "Hate speech and inter-ethnic hatred are unacceptable.
We have asked the Swiss law enforcement authorities to investigate the incident and ensure accountability. Such behavior should not be tolerated," he wrote. Olena Dudnyk says: representatives of the Ukrainian embassy in Switzerland called her and promised support. She is currently preparing to file a complaint with the police and prosecutor's office.
On October 17, it became known that the State Security Service of Latvia initiated criminal proceedings against a citizen of his country who attacked the family of Olena Dudnyk. As Delfi writes, the proceedings were opened after a video of the incident appeared online. A criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 78 of the Criminal Code of Latvia on the grounds of actions aimed at inciting national enmity and enmity against Ukrainians, associated with violence and threats.
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