At the monument, painted red paint painted a fascist swastika and wrote anti-Semitic slogans, as well as insults to Zakharova - presumably, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Report on the attack on the monument appeared on the page of the regional council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in Facebook.

The party was urged by the Bulgarian authorities to take measures to protect the monument and promised to carry night watchings from "Alyosha". The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs named the outrage over the monument absolutely unacceptable and contrary to traditional national tolerance. "We hope that the competent authorities will disclose the perpetrators and bring them to justice," the statement of the diplomatic department says..