St. Petersburg, April 9, 2020
Church of the Annunciation on Vasily Island that was vandalized. Photo: globus.aquaviva.ru
At least two churches have been attacked and vandalized recently in St. Petersburg.
Police are currently searching for a suspect in an attempt to set fire to a church in the Vyborg District of the northern capital yesterday, reports RIA-Novosti.
“On April 8, the police of the Vyborg District of St. Petersburg received a message from a guard of one of the churches on Bolshaya Ozernaya Street that an unknown attacker had set fire to an unidentified liquid in jars inside a backpack, and tried to throw the bag into the church building,” according to a statement from the press service of the St. Petersburg and Leningrad Province of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.