On the outskirts of the village Petrykiv near Ternopil an act of vandalism was committed on the monument to the victims of the Holocaust, the chairman of the Jewish community of Ternopil Igor Banseruk told Ukrinform.
"I applied to the police, to the SBU, informed the Consul of Israel in Ukraine Gennady Polishchuk, the leadership of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Organization. Now we are building a community and we will clean the monument of impurities, "Banzeruk said..
According to him, over the past ten years, such acts of vandalism on the grave of Holocaust victims were committed six times. Attackers were never detained.
As reported, and ktivisty Polish nationalist organizations on April 26 dismantled a gravestone to the soldiers of the UPA, installed in the cemetery of the village Grushovici near Przemysl.