Kosheleva told RusNews that she and her husband were approached by the strangers as they pulled up to their building. The men, according to the account of those attacked, put a can of beer on Kosheleva's car and began swearing at them. A scuffle broke out after she objected.
"They immediately started saying that we are traitors to the Motherland, that they are fighting for people like us, and that we are ungrateful wretches," RusNews quoted Kosheleva as saying.
A hospital discharge summary recorded bruises to the soft tissues of her head, swelling of the soft tissues of her nose and multiple hematomas on her face. She complained of headache, dizziness and nausea. An ambulance took her to the hospital, and she was discharged on September 27.
Kosheleva was one of the organizers of the "Where Is Seda?" campaign to find Seda Suleimanova, a Chechen woman who fled domestic violence, was later detained by police and sent home. She has since disappeared.
During the State Duma elections on September 18-20, Kosheleva worked at a precinct election commission, where she monitored the vote-counting process. She told the outlet Slovo Zashchite that during violations of the counting procedure, people "physically lunged at her," and that the commission "did not fill out the final protocol in order to add in numbers." Kosheleva ultimately went to a hospital for a medical examination to document her bruises.