In Belgorod, the authorities removed the sculpture of a grandmother with the banner of Victory

According to the mayor of Belgorod, after the installation of the statue, they tried to “climb” it.Now the authorities are looking for another place for the sculpture.

The sculpture of a grandmother with the banner of Victory, which was installed in Belgorod the day before, was removed after the facts of vandalism. Mayor Anton Ivanov announced this on his TELEGRAM channel.

“Almost immediately after the installation of the sculpture of a grandmother with a banner near the Pobeda cinema, we had to look for another place to place it. It came to trying to climb the sculpture. Removed,” the mayor wrote.

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According to Ivanov, the city authorities will look for another place, without the possibility that people could touch the sculpture.

A cardboard sculpture of a grandmother with a banner was installed in Moscow at the end of April. The sculpture was broken at night. After that, 25-year-old Roman Sakharov was detained. The Tushinsky COURT found him guilty under Part 2 of Art. 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“Petty hooliganism associated with resistance to a law enforcement officer”) and appointed him 15 days of arrest.

Grandmother became one of the symbols of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine after a video appeared on the Web on April 7 in which she met Ukrainian soldiers who arrived in her village with the banner of Victory. The military gave granny groceries, took away the flag and began to trample on it, in response, the grandmother refused humanitarian aid. Channel One found out that her name is Anna, she lives with her grandfather in one of the villages in the Kharkiv region. 

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