Covered with Ukrainian flags this morning were the two World War II tanks belonging to the Soviet Monument on 17 June Avenue near the Brandenburg Gate.
According to the Berliner Zeitung, police were alerted early in the morning by the Russian embassy in Berlin. “We consider the incident a desecration of the monument to Soviet soldiers who fell fighting to liberate Germany and Europe from Nazism,” the Russian embassy said in a statement, urging citizens to report any such incidents.
The monument was built by the Soviets after the occupation of Berlin, to honor the USSR soldiers who were lost during World War II and especially the 80,000 who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945. It has been built since ruins of the chancellery and includes a portico and a statue of a Soviet soldier. To the right and left of the monument are two T-34 tanks, one of the first to enter the city, and two artillery tanks, with 2,000 Soviet soldiers buried behind the monument.
Following the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the German police had warned of possible targets of Russian and Ukrainian interest in the city, and for this reason their security has been strengthened.
Source: AMPE
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