This was reported by the press service of the Cherkasy region police.
“The police received a message that in Uman, in places of compact residence of Bratslav Hasidim, graffiti was painted on one of the concrete slabs with the image of Adolf Hitler and the inscription was painted in red in German,” the statement said.
It is noted that law enforcement officers detained a suspect in a crime and investigators are already working with him.
Criminal proceedings under Art. 436-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The man faces five years in prison.
Earlier in the Nikolaev area unknown painted a swastika and left insulting inscriptions on a monument to victims of the Holocaust. Later, in the same region, vandals desecrated another monument dedicated to Jews, and also threatened Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
On May 15, 2018, the American Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement stating that Ukraine has recorded an increase in intolerance and anti-Semitism.
At the same time, on May 5, 2018, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced that there was no increase in the number of manifestations of anti-Semitism in the country.