Lithuania Goes After Ukrainian Who Drove Tank In 1991 Soviet Crackdown

Thirty years after Lithuania achieved independence from the Soviet Union, it is requesting that Greece hand over a man from Ukraine who was involved in a Soviet military intervention. Oleksandr Radkevic was a tank driver when Soviet troops entered Vilnius in January 1991 to suppress the independence movement, an operation that led to 14 civilian deaths. Lithuania gained statehood months later and the Soviet Union collapsed.