By the television tower that night I was injured by a fragment of a shell, but the injury wasn't that serious, and I was still able to help load a wounded man into an ambulance. Then some kind-hearted people bandaged me and drove me up to the Red Cross Hospital...
After the invasion and the assault of the murderers, our men went to the bus that had been parked nearby. They had just managed to get inside when some men appeared. With sticks. Without any explanation they began to beat the men, who didn't resist, and then threw them out of the bus. Then they began to do a „search". They tore the Lithuanian flag, trampled it with their boots, and grabbed the best things that they could find. Someone's suitcase, someone's Thermos. I personally lost a handbag with some money in it, a foreign umbrella, a pair of leather gloves, a pack of cigarettes, and a flag that had been to Bucharest (to the “Baltic Way"...). The things that hadn't been taken were overturned and strewn about. We were really surprised that they had torn up some passports -they were their own, Soviet...
I've kept a roll of bandage as a reminder - it had been shot through by a fragment while in my jacket pocket. Because of that bandage I wasn't seriously wounded... I'll never forget what I saw. Now
I know myself and I'm telling other people: those who came in to overcome us with weapons were MURDERERS AND THIEVES!
Lithuania, 1991.01.13 : documents, testimonies, comments. - Vilnius : State Publishing Center, 1992, p. 138.