Anonymous ID: 2d3f83 June 21, 2021, 6:15 p.m. No.13954110   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4142 >>4243 >>4351 >>4382 >>4467 >>4511 >>4554 >>4587 >>4598

Moscow lights 1,418 candles on 80th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War

 

The Great Patriotic War claimed the lives of nearly 27 million Soviet soldiers and civilians. The war was fought along the Eastern Front of World War II between the Soviet Union, on one side, and Nazi Germany and its allies, on the other.

 

Russia marks the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow for the victims of the Great Patriotic War on Tuesday, as exactly 80 years ago, at dawn on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union by attacking Brest, Kiev and other Soviet cities with the largest invasion force in the history of warfare.

 

As part of the Candle of Memory ceremony, volunteers, veterans, servicemen and other activists lit 1,418 candles in Moscow — according to the number of days the Great Patriotic War lasted. At midnight exactly, the memory of those killed during the war was honored with a moment of silence.

 

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1407118467548000258

Anonymous ID: 2d3f83 June 21, 2021, 7:27 p.m. No.13954454   🗄️.is 🔗kun

In Washington, IDF chief warns US against rejoining Iran nuclear deal

 

https://twitter.com/TimesofIsrael/status/1407067056961245184