An installation in honor of the capture of Mariupol was taken under protection in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, an installation in the form of two hearts, set up on Dvortsova Square in honor of “twinning” with the annexed Mariupol, was taken under protection, the “Fontanka” publication reports. According to the mass media, from now on near the composition, employees of the security agency will be on duty around the clock. It is not specified what it is related to.

Two hearts, a large one with the inscription “St. Petersburg” and a small one with the inscription “Mariupol”, symbolizing the “twinning” of the cities, were installed by the authorities of St. Petersburg on Dvortsova Square in December. Less than a week after installation, the installation was covered with graffiti and inscriptions.

One of them, on the heart with the name of Mariupol, read: “Murderers, you bombed it yourselves. Jews.” Later, the police detained an 11th-grade student from one of the St. Petersburg schools who allegedly wrote the inscription. A report on the administrative article on the discrediting of the Russian army was drawn up on her.

After that, the installation was replaced with a new one.

• The city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region of Ukraine was captured by Russian troops in May 2022 after almost three months of fierce fighting. During the assault, a significant part of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities were destroyed.
• Ukraine and international human rights organizations accuse Russia of numerous war crimes committed in Mariupol, including the shelling of the maternity hospital and the attack on the Drama Theater where people were. It is claimed that thousands of civilians died as a result of the actions of the Russian army. The Ministry of Defense of Russia calls these accusations fake.