KHARKIV, Ukraine — A cellphone video shared widely on social media shows a woman jumping up and down as she unwraps a gift.
Inside the box is a red piece of paper, which she waves at the camera in excitement. “It’s a permit for Rynok Square for my Mercedes,” she exclaims. “The best present.”
The gift allowed her to drive through one of the main pedestrian squares in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, a route usually reserved for emergency vehicles. And the gift came from her boyfriend — the head of the city’s traffic police — the Police Patrol of Ukraine said in statement.