“The demarches of the embassy worked - behind the monument to the Soviet liberator soldier on Schwarzenbergplatz, the symbols of the nationalist Azov battalion were removed.
And a police patrol is in place, ”the message says.
On May 27, the Russian Embassy appealed to the Austrian Foreign Ministry because of the appearance of a neo-Nazi symbol at a Soviet monument in Vienna.
In April, Ambassador Dmitry Lyubinsky, in a conversation with RT, said that the Austrian law enforcement agencies were reacting seriously and promptly to the data transmitted by the Russian side about the desecration of historical monuments in the country.