VILNIUS, October 12 (RIA Novosti, Vladimir Vodo) - Lithuania will return the wreckage of the Russian Su-27 fighter that crashed in the country in September as soon as an agreement on repaying damages is reached, the country's Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office handed over the wreckage to the ministry Tuesday.
The owner of the land plot where the fighter crashed first estimated the damage at 1,000 euros, but Vilnius is asking 30,000 euros.
The fighter, flying from St. Petersburg to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, crashed September 15 on Lithuanian territory after a navigation system failure. Pilot Valery Troyanov managed to eject safely and no one was hurt in the incident.
