Inna Shevchenko, 21, an activist in the Femen group, peeled off her top, revealing the words 'F**k Euro 2012' on her torso.
She then grabbed hold of the 60cm-high cup while it was being exhibited in a central square in Dnipropetrovsk, according to a video clip released by Femen.
As security guards moved in on her, another activist, standing next to the cup, stripped off to the waist to display the same slogan.
A 23-year-old Femen topless taskforce member, Ukranian Yulia Kovpachik, layed hands on the two-foot tall silver Euro Cup while it was on open-air display in Kiev, one of the sites of next month's Euro-2012 soccer tournament. Since Europe is bananas for soccer, security guards seized her almost instantaneously, but not before she pulled down her red t-shirt to reveal the pithy slogan "Fuck Euro 2012" scrawled in what we can only assume was Max Fischer-perfect calligraphy across her chest. The guards quickly covered her with a sheet and led her to an idling police car, almost as if they'd been warned in advance of the attempted theft.
Femen regularly stages topless protests to highlight what it sees as persistent social injustice and gender inequality, both in Ukraine and throughout the rest of the Europe and the Middle East. The group ostensibly arranged the Kiev stunt to protest the sex tourism industry ahead of the upcoming soccer tournament, which Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland. About a million visitors are expected to flood the two countries next month and Femen believes that these interlopers will feed what it is already a booming sex industry. In the wake of Kovpachik's protest, Femen activist Olexandra Shevchenko told reporters, "We came here today to stop this Euro fan low-life from making a bordello out of Ukraine."
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