Young people of athletic build attacked participants in the procession on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation in Dnepropetrovsk. agency reported this on Wednesday The Interfax with reference to the organizer of the action.

As Nikolai Lukashov told reporters, the attack occurred when a column of 80 people, which mainly included women and elderly people, began moving along European Square. “They tried to beat women. We defended them, but no one was going to get involved in a fight. Then the attackers began throwing chairs, traffic cones and everything they could get their hands on,” said the organizer of the march. The young people did not have Slavic appearance, he added.

According to Lukashov, the police were at first confused, but then repelled the attack and then accompanied the protesters to the place of the prayer service in Kalinin Park. Lukashov does not know whether they managed to detain any of the attackers. Meanwhile, in Kalinin Park, several more people with flags of the Soviet Union were waiting for the group. The police prevented a clash and detained the most active young people.

It is unknown what goals the attackers pursued. Sources in the Dnepropetrovsk police told the agency that they began collecting photo and video materials to establish the identities of the attackers.

Days of Remembrance and Reconciliation are celebrated on May 8 and 9 and are dedicated to the victims of World War II. Commemorative dates were introduced by a resolution of the UN General Assembly in 2005 on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the war.

Participants of the march in Dnepropetrovsk were beaten