“Late on Friday evening, a police patrol noticed that the monument to soldiers in the center of Palanga was covered in blue and yellow paint,” the police department said in a statement to TASS.

The police have launched an investigation into the incident.

Earlier, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a case in connection with the damage to the monument to Soviet soldiers in Tallinn.

Subsequently, the chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to give a legal assessment of the actions of the vandals who desecrated the monuments to Soviet soldiers in Kaunas and the Klaipeda region.