German artist will crumple Ukrainian armored car in Riga

To attract maximum attention to his art project, Fleckenstein intends to have a wrecked Ukrainian armored vehicle (most media called it a tank, but it is a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle - editor's note) stood on the lawn near the National Library. It is planned that he, in the uniform of a “Russian soldier,” will wash it with a sponge and water for two weeks, from morning to night.

According to the artist, the process of cleansing with water has a deep spiritual meaning in many world cultures. With these actions, he calls on the Russian authorities to ask for forgiveness for Ukraine and not to encroach on the borders of a sovereign state. The title of the project is “Everything will be fine.”