Police arrest Moscow residents honoring Dnipro missile strike victims with flowers

Four people were arrested by Moscow police when laying flowers by the monument to the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka.

Yesterday, Moscow residents began to bring flowers to the Ukrainka monument, to commemorate the victims of the January 14 Russian missile strike in Dnipro.

Two of the people arrested on site were there to lay flowers, reports OVD Info. The other two happened to be standing nearby.

The woman who came to lay flowers with her dog was arrested after the activists of SERB, a radical pro-Kremlin movement, called the police. The police forced the dog owner into a service vehicle, leaving her dog in the street. Later, the owner’s neighbors came to pick up the dog, reports OVF Info.

Sota reports that, soon after the first police vehicle, a second one arrived at the monument. The police are detaining people “chaotically,” the news outlet reports.

The monument to Lesya Ukrainka was inaugurated in 2006 on Moscow’s Ukraine Boulevard, not far from Kyiv Station, one of Moscow’s several railway hubs.