Topless women protesters were detained Friday for vandalising a monument outside the United Nations complex in Geneva to protest the use of landmines in Ukraine and to demand Russia is kicked out of the UN. 

Two members of Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, which is known for its provocative protests, used a chainsaw to cut into the wooden sculpture known as the ‘Broken Chair’. 

The women wore bands in the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag on their legs and they were heard shouting ‘Keep Russia out of the UN’ and ‘F**k Russia’ as they sawed into a monument known as the Broken Chair, leaving over a dozen gashes.

The three-legged structure by Swiss artist Daniel Berset symbolizes the dismemberment caused by landmines and is a call to ban the devastating weapons, which have also been used in the war in Ukraine. 

Footage shows how the two women strip off their giant fur coats  and bear their chests as they grab ahold of chainsaws and march towards the artwork.

They declined to speak to reporters afterward. 

FEMEN members, one of them holding a chainsaw, protest under the ‘Broken Chair’ Monument, at Place des Nations, outside the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland

Activist group FEMEN is known for its provocative protests 

Geneva police confirmed four people were brought in for questioning 

A Geneva police spokesperson confirmed that four people had been brought in for questioning in relation to the incident. 

Since it was founded in Kyiv in 2008, the Femen movement has won fame and notoriety in Europe for its protests – usually topless – against sex tourism, homophobia and religious institutions. 

Just last month, the same activist group staged a powerful protest in Paris for International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, with at least 100 topless female protesters demanding an end to the ‘War Against Women’.