Graffiti insulting Ukrainian ambassador appears in Serbia

Insulting graffiti targeting Oleksandr Lytvynenko, Ukraine's Ambassador to Serbia, appeared in the centre of the Serbian city of Novi Sad on 25 February.

Source: Radio Liberty Balkan Service, as reported by European Pravda

Details: The graffiti appeared the day after a monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was vandalised in the city.

There have been no official reports on whether anyone has been held accountable for the earlier desecration of the monument.

Ukraine's Embassy in Belgrade responded by condemning the damage to the monument to the Ukrainian poet as a shameful act.

Background:

• Unidentified perpetrators recently vandalised a monument to the Home Army, the predominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War, at the Central Cemetery in Szczecin, Poland.
• Polish authorities have also investigated an incident in which a red-and-black OUN flag and the slogan "Glory to the UPA" were painted on a monument to the victims of the Volyn tragedy. [The Volyn (Volhynia) tragedy was a series of events that led to the ethnic cleansing of the Polish and Ukrainian populations in 1943 during the Second World War.

Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!