Together with my friend Loreta Asanavičiūtė, I kept vigil at the television tower for a couple of days. Loreta and I worked together and were good friends. Our office wasn't far from the tower. On Saturday morning we met at the tower. We are lunch, had a rest, and went back to the tower again...
When they began to shoot, I wasn't frightened at all. But my friend Loreta was really scared. I told her: „Calm down and say a prayer, everything will be okay. There's so many people - there's a whole crowd here, not just a few people -they won't do anything to us". Then the windows began to shatter and we stepped away from the tower. We chanted: “Lithuania!" We moved back, and the tanks were coming closer. Now I only remember how Loreta told me to give her my hand. I stretched my hand out to her but I slipped and someone fell on me. I couldn't understand anything that was going on. Above me I saw the barrel of a tank and suddenly I felt my legs being crushed. I heard someone scream¬ing. As if in a daze, I remember that there was someone lying next to me -whether it was my friend or someone else I have no idea. I managed to pull one of my legs away, but I felt the tank's tracks on the other one. I remember men were waving their arms to the soldiers sitting on the tank and were shouting something...
I heard a lie that Lithuanians pushed two girls under the tanks themselves. That's complete nonsense. When that tank drove us back we all receded. But I tripped and wasn't able to get up in time-Whenever I remember that terrible night I'm sure that if I had to, I wouldn't be afraid to go and protect the tower again. On Friday night when I went home and knew that there weren't many people left there, my conscience was bothering me. I didn't have feelings of revenge towards that tank driver who injured me. But I cannot grasp how he could have driven over people, even if he had been ordered to do so. That's inhuman, terrible...
Lithuania, 1991.01.13 : documents, testimonies, comments. - Vilnius : State Publishing Center, 1992, p. 110-111.