On Dec. 12 morning, two war monuments in Russia's Novosibirsk state were painted with the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The graffiti artists also wrote "Azov," the name of a Ukrainian battalion fighting pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, on the monuments.
The Novosibirsk State Ministry of the Interior told Russian News Agency Interfax that the graffiti was applied just after 8 a.m. local time and that authorities are now investigating.
