The incident is the result of an interethnic conflict, at the initial stage of which local Gypsies beat a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who was standing at the bus stop. In response to this, the nationalists forced a group of Gypsies to apologize.

According to some media, the video published some time later about the retaliatory beating of the Ukrainian military by Gypsies is staged. The Ukrainian authorities to seize control of the channels in Transcarpathia, through which contraband goods are illegally transported in both directions.