Three Heavy Machines torched at Ukraine Construction Site

30.8.11

report­ed by activists in Ukraine (pho­to from 057.ua):

“In the night of August 28th, 3 wheeled load­ers were torched in Gorky Park (Kharkov, Ukraine).

Accord­ing to the chief engi­neer of Gorky Park, Oleg Gri­nenko, the load­ers had just start­ed their work in the park. The equip­ment belonged to a sub­con­trac­tor whose task was to pro­vide for new road infra­struc­ture. One of the destroyed loader’s mar­ket price was esti­mat­ed as $60,000.

Since the begin­ning of con­struc­tion on May 2011 , the con­struc­tion site has seen numer­ous eco­tage actions, expro­pri­a­tions of con­struc­tion equip­ment and mass protests.”