The Prosecutor-General's Office objected to accusations of spreading pro-Russian propaganda, calling them false.
The Russian embassy in Slovakia on Thursday released a status on Facebook about a recent visit of Russian Ambassador to Slovakia Igor Bratchikov to the cemetery in the eastern Slovak village of Ladomírová, claiming that the graves of Imperial Russian Army soldiers have been "razed to the ground by an excavator" at the behest of village mayor Vladislav Cuper. In this vein, the embassy claimed that it was sending a diplomatic note to the Slovak Foreign Affairs Ministry over the alleged incident.
As the DenníkN daily pointed, Prosecutor General Žilinka, like the Russian embassy, posted on his social media account a photo of the cemetery from 2014 and a recent photo that he believes proves possible wrongdoing.
The police have called this information a hoax in the meantime, with Cuper explaining that the village has actually been trying to renovate the site as the concrete kerbs of the graves were falling apart.
Žilinka reported that an investigation will be launched to find out whether this "indiscriminate defilement" of the graves could be treated as the crime of desecration of a final resting place.
In reaction to the case MP of the largest governing Ordinary People party Andrej Stančík announced that he wants to initiate a special session of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee over Žilinka's statements, maintaining that the PG is spreading hoaxes produced by the Russian embassy in Slovakia. Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď opined that the PG is "a direct tool of Russian propaganda", calling it an "immense disgrace".
Source: TASR
