In Kiev, the police prevented the radicals to demolish the monument to Vatutin
. In Kiev there was a fight between law enforcement and radicals who tried to demolish the monument to General Vatutin in Mariinsky Park, reports journalist Last news .
Several dozen Ukrainian nationalists came to the monument with stairs and hammers. However, Several hundred law enforcers had cordoned off the Monument and didn't allow them to get to him. Began a brief scuffle, However, has received damages and seized there.
later radicals pelted the monument with eggs.
Monument to Vatutin already been attacked by radicals. In April, the nationalist Organization C14 threw paint on Him, and then staged a brawl with the people's Deputy Yuriy Boyko.
during the great Patriotic war, the General Vatutin was headed by the 1st Ukrainian front during the battle for the Dnieper and liberation of Kyiv. In February 1944, he received a serious wound in the Western Ukraine and fifteen APR died in Kiev. He was buried in Mariinsky Park in the center of the Ukrainian capital.
The feast of the nationalists
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