On Friday morning, two war monuments in Russia’s Novosibirsk state were painted with the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The graffiti artists also wrote “Azov,” the name of a Ukrainian battalion fighting pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, on the monuments.
Novosibirsk woke up today to find its beloved Soviet monuments painted in Ukraine’s colors. https://t.co/Rd3T9iKPNg pic.twitter.com/8k3XErr4FS
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) December 12, 2014
The Novosibirsk State Ministry of the Interior told Russian News Agency Interfax that the graffiti was applied just after 8 a.m. local time and that authorities are now investigating.
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Source: Newsweek
