Putin: Monument desecration sows enmity

Russian President Vladimir Putin today told the annual massive Victory Day commemoration in Red Square that desecrating war monuments harmed relations between countries.

Mr Putin did not mention any country by name, but the statement in his speech before thousands of veterans, dignitaries and soldiers in Moscow echoed Russia’s outrage over the recent removal of the statue of a Red Army solider from central Tallinn, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Estonia.