Lithuanian prosecutors accuse three foreign nationals of desecrating a monument to anti-Soviet resistance leader Adolfas Ramanauskas in January 2024 under orders from Russian military intelligence (GRU), BNS reports. The three suspects, now under custody, are two dual Estonian-Russian citizens and a Russian citizen residing in Tallinn. The group smeared the monument in the southern Lithuanian town of Merkine with red paint. Ramanauskas was one of the most prominent commanders of the anti-Soviet partisan resistance movement. He was captured in 1956 and then tortured and executed by the Soviet security police (KGB) in 1957.
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