Unknown individuals entered the Ereveld Memorial Complex in Utrecht, Netherlands, scrawling slogans on 150 gravestones of Soviet soldiers buried there. Remco Reiding, the director of the Soviet Field of Glory Foundation said that the scale of the vandalism was greater than he expected. Even the Dutch Defense Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius issued a protest, saying that desecrating the graves of soldiers was unacceptable. The police are now investigating the incident and the memorial has been closed. The cemetery holds the graves of 865 Soviet soldiers killed during the Second World War.