The Russian ambassador to Tallinn, Vladimir Libaev, said that “the Estonian authorities are making no effort to punish those who have desecrated Soviet memorials in the country.”

And the media reported that “the police opened a criminal case to clarify the circumstances of the accident, on charges of insulting the memory of the victims.”

At the Polozskoye cemetery there is a mass grave of soldiers of the Soviet Red Army who died during the Second World War, and above it is a monument with an inscription in Estonian and Russian: “Eternal glory to the fallen heroes in the struggle for freedom.” and the independence of our Motherland.”

Ambassador Libaev continued: “The desecration of the memorial in Tartu is not the first and not the last case, but there have already been twenty such acts of vandalism, and we don’t see any real results (by the Tallinn authorities, so it’s hard to expect anyone to be punished”) .

Estonian Prime Minister Kaia Kallas said earlier that the government had decided to dismantle all Soviet monuments in the republic as soon as possible. According to the Prime Minister, there are 200-400 such monuments. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the words of the Estonian prime minister outrageous, saying: “This does not add (honour) to any people.”