On June 22, Day of Memory and Sorrow, the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir Putin paid tribute to the memory of the victims by laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall.
The ceremony to commemorate the defenders of the Fatherland was attended by the Great Patriotic War veterans, officers of the Russian Armed Forces, military school cadets, and participants in the Bolshaya Peremena contest for schoolchildren.
The President also laid flowers at the hero cities’ memorial plaques and the monument to the Cities of Military Glory.
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