In Kharkov, a pensioner mined the regional council to bring back Lenin
Kharkov, November 12 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – In Kharkov, a pensioner threatened to blow up the buildings of the regional council and the State Industry Committee, demanding the restoration of the monument to Lenin.
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According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kharkov region, an anonymous person called 102 and said that “if the monument to Lenin is not restored within a few days, explosions will take place in two institutions in the central part of Kharkov.”
During the day, the miner was detained by law enforcement officers. He turned out to be a 63-year-old local resident.
“At the time of the crime, the 63-year-old pensioner was intoxicated,” police say.
As PolitNavigator reported, on September 28, participants in a rally for Ukrainian unity tore down a monument to Lenin on Freedom Square in central Kharkiv.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced that the criminal case regarding the damage to the Lenin monument in Kharkiv has been dropped . Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes, meanwhile, promised to restore the destroyed monument and attempted to sue Governor Ihor Baluta , who ordered its removal, but was unsuccessful.
In Kharkiv , a pensioner mined the regional council building to bring back Lenin.