In Lithuania, a lawsuit was filed against the first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, because of the events in Vilnius on January 11-13, 1991. Then the Soviet military stormed the television center in Vilnius, which killed 14 civilians, injured more than a thousand. DW reports..

The lawsuit was filed with the Vilnius District Court on January 13 by relatives of four victims of the events of January 13.

Relatives accuse Gorbachev that he, as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR, could not prevent the "

The leaders of the USSR, led by Mikhail Gorbachev, did not take responsibility for the events of the night of January 12-13 and stated that they did not give any orders.

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