“We are ready to take the legendary “thirty-four” so that it takes a truly worthy and most honorable place on the territory of the memorial being created on the Northern face of the Kursk Bulge.
We will cover the costs of transporting the tank,” Starovoit wrote in his Telegram.
According to him, earlier a group of residents of the region launched a petition on the Internet to transfer the monument to the Kursk region.
On August 16, work began in Estonia on the transfer of the T-34 memorial tank to the Estonian War Museum.
The head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry, Urmas Reinsalu, said that if any of the foreigners who are in Estonia, on the basis of the existing residence permit, oppose the dismantling of Soviet monuments, then they should take into account the likelihood of the residence permit being cancelled.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called his statement a direct threat.