This memorial site is specifically dedicated to: Evgeny Prigozhin
A Russian court on Monday sentenced two men to prison for destroying an unofficial monument honoring Wagner Group mercenaries. According to reports, the assailants kicked the vase.
Moscow's Tversk District Court on Monday convicted Daniil Golikov and Andrei Kozlovsky of vandalism and “destruction” of a street monument near Red Square. According to AFP news agency, the men were recorded kicking the vase. According to their accounts, they were drunk at the time.
The men were accused of knocking over three vases and trampling eight bouquets, according to independent website Mediazona.
Kozłowski was sentenced to three years in prison and Golikov to two and a half years. The sentence will be served in an open prison, where conditions are more lenient than in a normal penal colony, AFP news agency writes.
Russia. Convicted of destroying monuments
Mediazona newspaper reported that Golikov is a 28-year-old graduate of Moscow's Higher School of Economics, and Kozlovsky is a 26-year-old graduate of the Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Academy.
Prosecutors estimated the damage they caused at 55,732 rubles. The portal site reported that the men apologized in court and their lawyers paid compensation for the damages.
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The monument in question is an unofficial monument near the Kremlin. Flowers, candles, Russian flags and photos of people killed in Ukraine are on display.
This place was created last year. Flowers were initially laid out in memory of Evgeny Prigozhin, a Wagner Group mercenary, pro-Kremlin military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, and later Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, AFP said.
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