In the early hours of Aug. 20, unknown individuals put Ukraine’s flag on top of the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, one of Moscow’s famous Stalinist skyscrapers.
They also painted a Soviet star under the flag blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine’s national flag. The flag was noticed around 7 a.m. and taken down three hours later. Four young people were detained as suspects and could be charged with hooliganism, punishable by up to seven years in prison.