Bastrykin instructed to investigate the arson of a monument to Soviet soldiers in Latvia

It is noted that the vandals set fire to the monument at the fraternal military grave in Valmiera.

“The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation instructed the Main Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee to establish all the circumstances of what happened in the framework of the criminal case,” the agency’s website said in a statement.

It was instructed to establish all the circumstances of the incident.

Earlier, a man was fined in Estonia for desecrating a monument to Soviet soldiers in Tallinn.

The punishment was imposed by the Harju County Court.