Shock footage shows bikini-clad women brawling on a beach in Ukraine after group started ‘playing Russian music'
The mass scrap was triggered when one group began blasting Russian music on a beach in Odesa, on the Black Sea coast, according to some local reports.
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Playing Russian music publicly is banned - so any infringement at the popular Golden Beach would have riled fury.
Footage shows a gaggle of women pushing and pulling at each other.
One pair each has their fists gripped onto the other's hair before collapsing onto another pair brawling in the sand.
Other women pile into the heap, before some men in underpants also get involved.
Bodies are shoved out of the melee - some tumbling backwards and taking others with them.
Things look to have calmed down, but then two men begin wrestling on their feet.
And the group of women, now also back on their feet, continues to whack at each other.
The Strana news outlet reported that holidaymakers fought on the beach after "a song in Russian was played".
Odesa has seen almost daily drone or missile strikes during the war - and the famous Golden Beach usually provides a brief respite from the conflict.
The port city has faced down more than 700 Russian attacks since war broke out in February 2022.
Watch moment migrant boat arrives on Spain hols beach before they are chased & tackled by angry locals
At least 131 civilians have been killed and more than 312 wounded by the aerial offensives.
The Russian port punch-up follows another beach brawl between migrants and locals on the Spanish coast.
A migrant boat arrived and unloaded its occupants, who were chased and tackled by angry beach goers.
Around a dozen of those who arrived on the boat were detained, with some held by beachgoers until authorities arrived.
The shocking incident unfolded on Sotillo Beach in Castell de Ferro, Granada in the afternoon on Sunday.
Footage shared on social media shows a speed boat with young men on board arriving at the shore at around 2pm.
Those on the boat are captured diving into the water in front of stunned holidaymakers and locals.
They then swim to the beach before attempting making a run for it.
But locals are seen tackling some of the migrants to the ground, whilst others manage to escape.
A clip shows a beachgoer in swimming trunks pinning one man down whilst he appears to beg to be let go.
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