Unidentified withdrew the sword from the Alexander Nevsky monument was placed outside the 15th hospital, said in GU the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv region.




Information about the disappearance of the sword at the sculpture came to the Metropolitan police Department on Sunday to 18. 05. To the specified address immediately I left it is investigative-task force, notified on the Internet representation offices. On the given fact criminal case under part 1 of article 296 UK of Ukraine (hooliganism)." is now the subject of an event to establish all the circumstances of the events and persons relevant to lawlessness ", - is informed in the report. As informs "news Agency" the story is about the monument to Alexander Nevsky. In Ukraine in the framework of the struggle with the Soviet past more than a year continues active destruction of monuments. Radicals began to tear down the monuments to Lenin in Ukraine from December 8, 2013. In 2014, the cases of vandalism are relatively platycephalidae on the entire territory of Ukraine. This phenomenon is called the "war of monuments" or " Leninabad ". On 9 April the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law prohibiting public use and propaganda of the Communist and national socialist symbols in the country, as well as recognizing these criminal regimes.

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