Police launched an investigation into the incident based on a Criminal Code
article entitled “Destruction of, or Damage to, Monuments of History or
Culture,” the authority said in a statement. The incident occurred in
Andriyevo-Ivanove village, Mykolayiv district.
In a similar incident in Odesa region late on December 8, a statue of Lenin
in front of a railroad workers’ club in a park in the town of Kotovsk was pushed
off its pedestal and broke into several pieces.