'BOTTLE SMASHED ON HEAD & BITTEN'

Ukrainian actor, 23, viciously assaulted by gang after show

- DANNY DE VAAL

A UKRAINIAN actor has been injured after thugs reportedly smashed a bottle off his head before using it to stab him in the face. 

Oleksandr Grekov, 23, was also allegedly bitten by the gang at Eden Quay, Dublin, on Saturday night before he was rushed to hospital.

He had just finished performing a Ukrainian version of the Irish play Translations in the city’s celebrated Abbey Theatre when he was attacked.

Oleksandr is attached to the Lesya Ukrainka National Theatre and its spokesman Anastasya Pavlenko said: “Oleksandr was standing near the Abbey after our last show.

“He was smoking near the main entrance and a group of people tried to take the cigarette from his mouth and his pack of cigarettes.

“Oleksandr tried to follow them and said, ‘These are my cigarettes, what are you doing?’ And the group of people started to hit him with a bottle.

“They broke it over his head… Some girl was also biting him. There were five of them, two males and three females.