Kyrgyz police probe Ukraine flag on mountain named for Putin

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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Police in Kyrgyzstan said on Thursday they were investigating reports that a Ukrainian flag was planted atop a mountain named in honour of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

A Twitter user identifying as a climber posted on Tuesday a video of a Ukrainian flag flying next to a plaque marking the mountain as Peak Putin, 4,446m above sea level.

"During questioning as witnesses, they explained that they discovered the flag after they climbed the peak and filmed it on a telephone," the police spokesman told AFP.The user of the Twitter account that first posted the video wrote on Thursday that her climbing partner had been questioned by police on Thursday and said she was due for a police interview on Friday.

 

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