This was reported by TASS with reference to the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Moscow Region Tatyana Petrova.
“According to information and photographs posted on one of the social networks with the inscription:“ Vandals desecrated the Eternal Flame in Odintsovo ”, police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Odintsovo city district are checking,” she said.
According to her, the police establish all the details of the incident and the citizens involved in the incident.
According to the agency, on May 28 social networks posted photos that captured how one of the men put a tin bucket on the Eternal Flame and stirred something in the bucket with a mop. In this case, a second man stood nearby and watched what was happening.
Earlier, police opened a criminal case on the desecration of the Great Patriotic War memorial in the city of Chernogolovka, Moscow Region.