Italian media say unknown activists have vandalized two villas in Italy that belong to leading pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov.
The Corriere della Sera newspaper reported on April 7 that unknown individuals threw red paint into the swimming pool at Solovyov's villa in Pianello del Lario near Lake Como.
Walls also were splashed with red paint with the words "Killer" and "No War" scrawled on the villa's entrance.
Separately, unknown persons tried to set fire to another villa belonging to Solovyov in the nearby town of Menaggio. Firefighters were called to extinguish the fire, Italian media reported.
The mayor of Menaggio, Michele Spaggiari, said that Solovyov was last in the villa in the summer of 2021.
Italian authorities impounded all of Solovyov’s villas and other properties in the country in early March as part of international sanctions imposed on those seen as close to Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24.