WARSAW, September 12 (Itar-Tass) - Vandals splattered paint on the monument to Soviet soldiers in Poland’s Poznan, the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza said on Thursday.

“Unfortunately, such things happen in Poland, but acts of vandalism of such a large scale have not happened for a long while,” local provincial governor spokesman Thomas Stube told Itar-Tass expressing regret over the incident.

He said workers had already started to clean up the monument.