... Ambulance medics started asking the paratroopers to let them take the wounded and dead from the upper grounds. But the medics still weren't per¬mitted to enter for another 20 minutes or so. In the name of the “National Salvation Committee of Lithuania" (the Lithuanian division of the Soviet Com¬munist Party) it was announced that they had taken power in Lithuania, and people were urged to disperse. At about 4 a.m. I drove to the Radio and TV Center on Konarskio Street... After some time I went back to the TV tower... Tanks and paratroopers were still standing on the upper grounds. There were pools of blood in the lower parking lot, on the highway, and especially where the ambulances had been parked. Further on, I spotted 3 or 4 cars and a few trucks that had been crushed by tanks. Windows of buses, cars and neighboring houses had been shattered by the firing of the tanks...

Lithuania, 1991.01.13 : documents, testimonies, comments. - Vilnius : State Publishing Center, 1992, p. 139-140.