“Today, the Latvian authorities, without the consent of the Belarusian side, dismantled a pedestrian bridge across the Sinyukha River, along which the state border line runs.
The river separates Belarus and Latvia, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
The bridge is located on the Mound of Friendship on the border of Belarus, Russia and Latvia.
Earlier, the vice-speaker of the Pskov Regional Assembly Armen Mnatsakanyan said that memorial plates were damaged on the monument "Mound of Friendship" in the area controlled by Riga.
The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered an inspection into the fact of damage to the memorial plates at the Mound of Friendship monument in Latvia.