A vandal broke the monument of heroes of the Heavenly Hundred.

The incident took place at Instytutska street in the downtown Kyiv on Thursday noon. The man broke the monument and tried to flee from the scene, but the police detained him on the spot. The 43-year-old came to Kyiv from Sevastopol, in the occupied Crimea.

According to Zoryan Shkiryak, the counselor of Ukraine’s interior minister, the vandal now testifies before the law enforcers. He faced charges with deliberate destruction or damage of property.