“I can confirm that indeed, as far as I heard, dismantling work has begun ... Dismantling has already begun in the morning, everything is going as planned, they are dismantling it and taking it away,” RIA Novosti quoted Grublyauskas as saying on LRT.
It is expected that all elements of the memorial will be dismantled by July 6, the work will cost €18,000.
On May 23, Russian investigators opened a criminal investigation into the demolition of a monument to Soviet pilots in Riga.