Russian embassy desecrated graves of its soldiers in eastern Slovakia

Seven months after the Russian embassy in Slovakia spread a hoax about a military cemetery in eastern Slovakia having been razed to the ground, it has emerged that the embassy did something different to the same cemetery years ago.

As the Denník N daily reports, in 2014 the Russian embassy paid money to have kerb surrounds placed around the graves of Russian soldiers buried at the Ladomirová cemetery. However, it is likely that they were placed in a way that did not correspond with graves, and so kerb surrounds ran through the soldiers’ bodies, according to former Ladomirová mayor Vladislav Cuper.

Cuper had these kerb surrounds removed last year because they were crumbling and making it difficult to maintain the First World War cemetery.

Ex-mayor still facing charges