In Yekaterinburg, the identity of the visitor who beat a 13-year-old schoolboy on the Uktus Mountains has been established.

      In Yekaterinburg, law enforcement officers have identified the man who attacked a 13-year-old on the slope of Mount Uktus last weekend, the EAN agency writes.

      The suspect is expected to be detained shortly, an EAN source familiar with the case told the agency. According to the source, the police managed to locate the suspect’s car.

      “Operational-search activities are continuing,” noted Colonel Valery Gorelykh, the official representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region. The investigation, police stressed, is being monitored.

      Colonel Gorelykh denied earlier reports of serious injuries to the child. Initially, doctors suspected fractures and a concussion, but more detailed examinations using CT and X-rays did not confirm those diagnoses, EAN writes.

      The day before, commenting on her son’s condition and the circumstances of the conflict, the mother of the injured teenager told KP-Yekaterinburg that she intends to pursue criminal charges against the man who attacked her child. According to the woman, due to a broken nose and ribs her son has difficulty breathing; he is taking sedatives and is struggling to cope with what happened, including anxiety about possible harm caused to the woman he accidentally knocked off her feet.

      For the next three weeks the teenager will be homeschooled and will temporarily refrain from sports. He will likely need psychological help going forward.

      The woman emphasized that their family is prepared to compensate the injured woman for any possible harm, if it is confirmed.

      As the Telegram channel Ural Mash reported, the boy beaten by the man felt guilty about the woman he had accidentally knocked down and did not immediately tell his mother about the incident. “But the guy just kept enjoying himself: cameras filmed how after the fight he and his girlfriend went to ride down the slopes,” Ural Mash writes.