In Kharkov painted monument to soldiers of the UPA in the colors of the Polish flagPhoto: Ukrainian Kharkov FB

Unknown painted monument to stripes of white and red

14.02.18 232000

In the center of Kharkov the unknown painted monument to the lost warriors in the colors of the Polish flag.

It is reported by the national police in Kharkiv region on his page in Facebook.

Unknown painted monument to the fallen soldiers of the UPA stripes of white and red.

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At the scene immediately went investigative team police.

Information registered in the magazine of the uniform accounting of offenses. The issue of qualification of this event.

We will remind, on 6 February, the President of Poland Andrzej Duda signed amendments to the law on the Polish Institute of national memory, criminalize the denial of the Volyn tragedy, the promotion of “the ideology of Bandera”, as well as public accusations against Poland for crimes committed during the Holocaust, the complicity of Nazi Germany, war crimes or crimes against humanity. For the use of the phrase “Polish death camp” when describing the concentration camps that existed on the territory of occupied Poland, any citizen of the country, a foreigner may be sentenced to payment of a fine or imprisonment up to three years.

The law provoked sharp criticism in Ukraine, Israel and the United States.