Ukrainian courts issued a series of sentences against residents of Donbass for the destruction of blue and yellow flags
The national flag of Ukraine for residents of the Donbass areas under the control of Kyiv has turned into a symbol of the civil war. Ukrainian courts have recently handed down a series of verdicts on charges of public desecration of a state symbol.
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So, at the beginning of March last year in Artemovsk, a local resident, passing by the fire station, pulled the flag out of its holder and set fire to the flag in the trash of the store opposite. Representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations put out the flames, and the man sentenced to a fine of eight hundred and fifty hryvnia.
In mid-April last year, three guys, two of them minors, tore off a flag stuck in the spare tire of a car parked on the side of the road in the city of Dimitrov, came closer to the center, where they burned the flag, filming this action on their phone and expressing everything they thought about the authorities. “Performance” attracted a lot of spectators. Court sentenced one guy to a month of arrest, the second, a minor, to twenty days of arrest, and the case of the third guy who filmed on his phone was separated into separate proceedings.
A similar incident occurred in the city of Artemovsk in September 2014. A group of five or six young people tore down a flag in the courtyard of the Ulybka kindergarten, and then vented all their feelings on it. Plucked flag guy and filmed All students on the phone paid a fine of 850 hryvnia.
At the end of July last year, in the center of the village of Andreevka, Slavyansky district, Donetsk region, in broad daylight, a local resident removed a banner from a flagpole near a store, tore it and burned it. In court, he explained his action by saying that in this way he protested against the ongoing hostilities in the South-East, where his relatives were fighting. The court appointed to the picketer 850 hryvnia fine.
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