In Lithuania, vandals desecrated a monument to soldiers who participated in the Great Patriotic War at a memorial cemetery in the village of Bubyai. On Sunday, May 15, TASS reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.
“In the village of Bubiai, a swastika was painted on a monument located on a military grave <…> The police are investigating the incident,” the document says.
It is noted that 739 soldiers and officers who fell in August 1944 during the liberation of this part of Lithuania are buried in the military cemetery.
The day before, the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to investigate the desecration of a monument to Soviet soldiers in Slovakia and “to establish all the circumstances of what happened within the framework of a criminal case.”
The Russian Embassy in Slovakia reported on the desecration of a monument to soldiers of the Red Army in the city of Piešťany in the west of the country: unknown people put on the monument the sign of one of the banned Ukrainian national battalions.
On April 23, Bastrykin ordered an investigation into yet another desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Lithuania.
In turn, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the actions of the Lithuanian authorities, including in relation to monuments, cannot be rationally explained. In his opinion, they serve as a constant irritant to the most aggressive Russophobic part of both NATO and the European Union.
