Two men were detained in Volgograd for desecrating the memorial to the “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad”

The detention of two men, 31 and 36 years old in Volgograd, who desecrated the memorial complex “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” was shown on video. The Russian Investigative Committee publishes the video on its Telegram channel.

The footage shows how men, one of whom is the famous pop MMA fighter Svyatoslav Kovalenko, are taken into the building of the Investigative Committee, where the investigator informs them about the case filed against them. Both admitted their guilt and repented.

According to the investigation, on July 24, 2026, the suspects, while on the territory of the memorial complex “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” on Mamayev Kurgan, threw a banknote of 5 thousand rubles into the reservoir surrounding the monument “Stand to the death!”, calling on visitors to the memorial to get it. At the same time, one of the defendants, pretending to be a random passerby, jumped into the water to get money.

The video was later posted on one of the social networks. Afterwards, both were detained during operational search activities.