Carpathian law enforcers identified and tracked down two 18-year-old local residents involved in the desecration of the monument to Kobzar. On this fact, criminal proceedings have been initiated.

This is reported by " We will remind, on March 5 in the morning, the police received a message that in the village of Podpechery, Ivano-Frankivsk territorial community, during the night, unknown persons damaged the bust of the pedestal to Taras Shevchenko. " The police examined the scene, interviewed all possible witnesses and, as a result of investigative actions, identified and tracked down the hooligans. The actions of the intruders are qualified on the basis of the commission of a criminal offense under Part. 1 st. 296 (hooliganism) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Now the police are establishing all the circumstances of the incident and deciding whether to report the suspicion to the offenders..