The Kremlin will hold accountable the Bulgarian Fans who Damaged the Soviet Monument in Sofia

Moscow declared the attackers of the Monument to the Soviet Army a day ago as criminals and threatened to hold them accountable.

The head of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered the initiation of a criminal case for the desecration of the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, reported the Russian state agency TASS, quoted by BTA.

The message says that vandalism has been committed against the Monument to the Soviet Army in the capital of Bulgaria, as a group of football supporters attacked the tented camp of defenders of the monument and damaged a granite slab at its base.

"Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, assigned the main investigative section of the department to jointly investigate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia the fact of desecration of the monument erected in honor of the Soviet liberators in Sofia. As part of the investigation, they will be taken measures to establish the identity of the persons responsible for the commission of this crime. A criminal-legal assessment will be prepared for their actions," the announcement said.

Late on Thursday evening after the football match between "Levski" and "Apoel", in which the Bulgarian team won, a group of youths spray-painted and damaged one of the plaques on the monument and attacked the tented camp of its "guardians". Four people have been detained.

The monument is to be dismantled and moved from the center of Sofia. It is not known on what basis the Russian state is taking actions to prosecute Bulgarian citizens on Bulgarian territory. The monument was built by the decision of the Bulgarian government and with Bulgarian financing, Russia has no...