Police Donetsk oblast set of individuals who have the opportunity to be involved in the decline of the monument to Lenin in the settlement of the town last night, informs the press-service of the police.

before the local media stated that the town had fallen statue of Lenin. In the morning the monument was loaded onto trucks and transported to the depot.

"The police did not allow the theft of parts of the monument, the breakaway in the fall. Currently installed the persons related to damage to the monument. Continue investigative actions, the results of which will be developed legal assessment of a given fact, " said the acting head of Dobropillya city's Department Alexey Miroshnichenko.

As noted, data on the damage to the monument came to the duty of Dobropillya city's Department about an hour of the night (02. 00 GMT).

Vandalism relatively monuments of the Soviet era became more frequent in Ukraine since the beginning of political decline in the country. The resonance was the incident of December 1, 2013, when the radicals dropped from the pedestal of the statue of Lenin in Central Kiev. Just vandals demolished more than five hundred monuments to Lenin in Ukraine, about 1, 7 thousand survived.

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