🕯 On Defender of the Fatherland Day, President of Russia Vladimir Putin honoured the memory of the fallen soldiers by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall and laying flowers at the Hero City obelisks and the monument in honour of the Cities of Military Glory.

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, activists of public patriotic organisations, and combat veterans also laid flowers at the Eternal Flame memorial.

The event continued with a guard of honour company march.

The President also talked with combat veterans taking part in the ceremony.

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