The Investigative Committee noted that unidentified persons acted on the grounds of "a negative attitude towards the activities of the USSR during the Second World War."
We are talking about the mass graves of the Red Army soldiers who died during the war during the liberation of Kherson from the German fascist invaders.
“With these cynical actions, the attackers demonstrated their disregard for the common memory and history of the struggle of fraternal peoples against fascism,” the department said.
A criminal case has been initiated under paragraphs.
"A", "b" part 2 of Art.
243.4 of the Criminal Code (damage to military graves, perpetuating the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland and its interests during the Great Patriotic War).
In April 2020, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case in connection with the dismantling of a monument to Soviet Marshal Konev in Prague for the "desecration of symbols of Russia's military glory committed in public."
As reported in September, a department will be created in the Russian IC that will investigate crimes related to the rehabilitation of Nazism and falsification of the history of the Fatherland.