Chewie was arrested for campaigning on Election Day in city of Odessa

He refused to pay a £5 fine, saying his 'funds are in an intergalactic bank'

before being bundled into police car

He had his lightsaber

The Force was certainly strong with Star Wars character Chewbacca when he was found campaigning for Darth Vader in Ukraine.

The police force, that is.

For the Wookiee warrior was arrested by no fewer than four officers for campaigning on Election Day, which is banned under Ukrainian laws.

He also had his lightsaber and laser gun confiscated.

The police force awakens: Star Wars character Chewbacca is arrested by Ukrainian officers for campaigning for Darth Vader on Election Day in the Ukrainian city of Odessa

He was also accused of failing to present his passport and was fined the equivalent of £5.

However, he declined to pay it, saying his 'funds are in an intergalactic bank that has no branches on this planet'.

Hilarious video shows four police officers struggling to handcuff Chewie as the music from Star Wars is played.

The bizarre incident happened in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, where candidates from The Internet Party have put themselves forward for election under the leadership of Darth Vader.

Chewie, who appeared to be trying to resist arrest, was eventually bundled into a police car and taken to a police station and later released.

Hilarious video shows at least four officers struggling to handcuff the Wookiee warrior

Chewbacca was also accused of failing to present his passport and was fined the equivalent of £5.

He declined to pay his fine, saying his 'funds are in an intergalactic bank that has no branches on this planet'

The Internet Party have complained that the name of their candidate Darth Vader did not appear on the ballot papers and have accused the Ukrainian government of fraud.

Last week, a bronze Lenin statue was remodelled into Darth Vader.

The sculpture of the revolutionary leader in the city of Odessa was going to be removed by the government under de-communisation laws.

The tall statue is now Darth Vader, having been given the Star Wars villain's iconic black helmet and mask.

Warehouse manager Semyon Horbunov, on whose land the statue sits, said: 'Everything flows and nothing abides.

'New heroes replace old ones, and this is how the world goes round.'

The sculpture of communist leader Lenin in the city of Odessa was going to be removed by the government under de-communisation laws - until it was transformed into Darth Vader

The tall statue is now Darth Vader, having been given the Star Wars villain's iconic black helmet and mask

One mad said of the revamp: 'New heroes replace old ones, and this is how the world goes round'

Underneath the new exterior remains the same Vladimir Lenin (left) effigy, but on the outside it's something completely different - Darth Vader

Sculptor Oleksandr Milov told Ukraine Today: 'The bronze Lenin was left inside, so that the grateful or not-so-grateful descendants could exhume him, if needed.'

Earlier this year, Ukraine's parliament passed a bill banning communist propaganda.

The April ruling prohibited revolutionary text from being on any monuments or places and street names.

It spelled the end for hundreds of statues of Lenin across the country, but as Odessa's newly transformed monument no longer depicts the Bolshevik leader, it will now be spared.

As well as the bronze's new look, it also has a new ultra-galactic feature too.