In Zaporozhye there was an activist clash with the participants of the Victory Regiment.

There was a skirmish between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists. The police opened a case for the manufacture and distribution of communist symbols.

In the pro-Russian organization Zaporozhye Victory Regiment He held a red flag demonstration, during which there was a clash with activists who ripped Soviet symbols from cars. On Saturday, May 9, reports Interfax-Ukraine.

Police said they opened criminal proceedings under the article “the spread of communist, Nazi symbols and the propaganda of totalitarian communist and Nazi regimes.”

It is observed that about 30 cars with red flags participated in the rally. The caravan drove down the central avenue of Zaporozhye, stopping near the Battle Glory Alley, where the Cossacks stood with the Ukrainian state flags.

When pro-Ukrainian activists removed the red flags from the cars of the Victory Regiment, a verbal skirmish arose between opponents.

According to the press service of the National Police in the Zaporizhzhya region, on the night of May 9, the police authorities carried out authorized searches for people involved in the local organization.

During the searches, more than 1,200 copies of the newspaper were seized. Victoria Regiment 1945-2020, around 450 protective red masks with a yellow star, more than 70 red flags with the inscriptions “Regiment of Victory” and “75 years of Great Victory”, more than 90 red ribbons representing a hammer and sickle , more than 20 Saint George ribbons, 20 caps, 177 plastic bags, balls representing a hammer and sickle, a welcome address with the printed text “Moscow”, about 100 letters and orders for May 9, a portrait representing Lenin and a red sign representing a hammer and sickle.

On this fact, criminal proceedings have been opened, investigative actions are being carried out.

Local publication First Zaporizhzhya notes that the searches changed the organization’s plans for the rally. According to the route previously published on social networks, it was planned that Victory Regiment You will pass near several monuments, near each of which the participants will deposit flowers. However, the race participants simply exited the Dnieper hydroelectric dam, passed the Monument to the Afflicted Mother, turned on and drove in the opposite direction. Participants in the escape made no stops to lay flowers.

It was previously reported that a brochure dealer with Soviet symbols was stopped at Krivoy Rog.

We will recall that, in the Odessa region, the court punished the man for the Soviet flag. The defendant resident of Matroska village pleaded guilty and reached an agreement with the prosecutor, agreeing to pay all costs of the case.

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