Also, on the defilement of a monument to Soviet soldiers in Bulgaria, the Russian Foreign Ministry fulminated, according to ITAR-TASS:
"We feel deeply indignant with the defilement of the grave of Soviet liberator soldiers in Sofia's Lozenets quarter by unidentified vandals overnight...," the Foreign Ministry said on its website. "The sculptural composition and the wall with the names of buried soldiers was stained with red pain in several places."
Here's video from this morning of the Ukrainian flag flying over the monument in Moscow:
h/t: @MyroslovaPetsa
Photos of the Ukrainian flag that unidentified vandals raised above one of the Stalin-style skyscrapers on Moscow's Kotelnicheskaya Embankment overnight. A Moscow emergency services employee told Interfax that it was taken down this morning, about three hours after it was first noticed.
That concludes our live blogging for Tuesday, August 19.
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