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🇷🇺Diplomats of Russian missions in Belgium paid tribute to the memory of the Second World War heroes. 🏅On 9 May 2024, marking the 79th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, a ceremony was held at the communal cemetery in Evere, Brussels. Ambassador of Russia to Belgium Alexander Tokovinin, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Russian Mission to the EU Kirill Logvinov and heads of CIS states’ diplomatic missions laid wreaths at the memorials of Soviet citizens who had died in the struggle against Nazism and of members of the Belgian Resistance. Commemorative events with the participation of Russian diplomats are also taking place in other Belgian towns where burial sites of Soviet servicemen are located. 🕯We will continue to remember and honour the feat of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who gave their lives to liberate Europe from Nazism. #VictoryDay#LestWeForget#Victory79#May9

🏅 Happy #VictoryDay! Today marks the 79th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism. #LestWeForget #Victory79#May9

Сегодня в англиканской церкви Святого Андрея Посол Великобритании Найджел Кейси посещает службу, посвященную Дню памяти павших #RemembranceDay День памяти — это время, когда мы чтим память тех, кто отдал свои жизни в конфликтах и войнах. Красный мак, который мы носим, символизирует не прославление войны, а нашу благодарность тем, кто служил, и нашу надежду на мир. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. #LestWeForget#RemembranceSunday#МыПомним

🎖 On January 18, 1943, the Red Army broke the siege of Leningrad during the operation 'Iskra'. The blockade of our Northern capital by the Nazis lasted for 872 days, having claimed the lives of around 1 million people, including more than 600'000 — children, women, seniors, and the fighters wounded and crippled at the frontline — who died of starvation. Alongside German troops, military units from European countries conquered by Hitler participated in the Siege of Leningrad — the 'Norway', 'the Netherlands' and 'Flanders' legions, as well as the Spanish infantry division. From the Narva direction, Baltic units — Latvian and Estonian battalions — were kept in reserve by the Nazis. From the north, the Finnish army besieged Leningrad and also shelled the city with its artillery. The Nazi command's orders were absolutely clear: to block the city, shoot anyone crossing the front line, and bring about the total destruction of the city's population. ❗️But Leningrad endured and never ever gave up fighting. Most of that time communication with Leningrad was almost only possible by air or through the only available transport artery across Lake Ladoga that became known as the 'Road of Life'. The Soviet forces repeatedly tried to break the siege, finally succeeding on January 18, 1943, during the operation 'Iskra'. To liberate the besieged city, it was decided to launch the main strikes near Shlisselburg, in the narrowest part of the Nazi defence lines adjoining Lake Ladoga. ⚔️ The Red Army broke the siege on January 18. A narrow corridor only 11 km wide opened on the southern shore of Ladoga for supplies and evacuation. The enemy was thrown 10−12 km away from the southern part of the Ladoga sector of the frontline. After 16 months of heroic fight against Hitler’s invaders, the second most significant city of the Soviet Union regained a reliable land-based connection with the Motherland. Three weeks after the siege was broken, a railway was built to carry the first trains with food supplies and munitions. Electricity supply improved. The breaking of the siege of Leningrad became a radical turning point in the battles in the northwestern sector of the Soviet-German front. The plans of Hitler’s command to take Leningrad by storm were completely disrupted. The threat of the Wehrmacht joining forces with the Finnish army to block the city was completely removed. ✍️ On the occasion of breaking the siege the city, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a special letter on behalf of all Americans to Leningrad residents. It read, in part: In the name of the people of the United States of America, I present this scroll to the City of Leningrad as a memorial to its gallant soldiers and its loyal men, women and children who, isolated from the rest of their nation by the invader and despite constant bombardment and untold sufferings from cold, hunger and sickness, successfully defended their beloved city throughout the critical period from September 8, 1941 to January 18, 1943, and thus symbolized the undaunted spirit of the peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of all the nations of the world resisting forces of aggression. *** #Victory81 🌟 The blockade was finally lifted on January 27, 1944, during the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive. #NoStatuteOfLimitation: In 2022, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, the Saint Petersburg City Court officially recognised the actions of the Nazi Germany's occupant troops — along with their collaborators, including armed units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and Czechoslovakia — as a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an ACTOFGENOCIDE against national and ethnic groups representing the population of the Soviet Union. #WeRemember#LestWeForget

80 лет спустя после Дня Победы в Тихом океане #VJDay мы отдаем дань уважения всем тем, кто сражался, кто попал в плен, и всем, кто пожертвовал собой. Наша страна всегда будет в большом долгу перед теми, кто боролся за лучшее будущее. #LestWeForget#VJDay#VEDay#VEDay80

The Embassy held the Immortal Regiment online procession to honour the memory of our heroes. #LestWeForget #Victory79#May9 #ImmortalRegiment #CandlesofMemory

Speech by H.E. Nikolay Kudashev (May 8, 2024) at the reception on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945): “Dear guests, 79 years separate us from Victory Day - May 9, 1945. The time span is considerable. So, what did we inherit from the victorious warriors who defeated Nazism? We inherited great values - a peaceful sky, a sun that warms everyone and the opportunity to live freely without wars and violence, without slavery and coercion, on the basis of equality and mutual respect. These values were enshrined in the UN Charter, which formed the basis of the post-war world. Unfortunately, we have to admit that life on a legal basis, a world without dictatorship and colonial enslavement, do not suit everyone, and first of all, those who is accustomed to imposing their will on others and prescribing alien rules and norms. A striking example is the state of affairs in Europe, where the United States, at the head of the collective West, launched a hybrid war against Russia from the territory of Ukraine, thereby, in my deep conviction, challenging the entire Global South and East, the entire world majority. Another convincing example is the situation in the Middle East, where the long-awaited settlement is stalled due to the fault of the same forces. Closer to our region in Asia, we are seeing attempts to revive the atmosphere of the Cold War, breathe life into its alliances, create new destabilizing minilateral structures like Aukus or the Asia-Pacific Four, and ultimately bring NATO’s aggressive potential here, undermine the architecture of regional cooperation emerging around ASEAN and take revenge for failure of the aggression in Europe. Our response is the demand for a new formula of indivisible security for Eurasia as well as calls for the creation of the Greater Eurasian Partnership that would unite Russia, the SCO and ASEAN states on an equal basis, and would weave togethersuch integration projects as the EAEU and One Belt - One Road. Our response is a joint effort with other nations of the global majority to create a new multipolar world, fair and democratic as the antithesis of the notorious rules-based order. The contours of this world are already visible in the activity of BRICS, where the Russian Federation has the honor of chairing this year, concentrating on the issues of cooperation with new members, developing the status of partner states, dialogue through the BRICS+ and BRICS-Outreach channels, and the implementation of a strategy for equal economic cooperation , strengthening foreign policy coordination and much more. I am sure that with our joint efforts we will not let destroy the great legacy of the victorious warriors and miss the chance that history gives us to live in peace and harmony. Happy holiday, dear friends! Happy Victory Day!” #LestWeForget #Victory79#May9 #ImmortalRegiment #CandlesofMemory

On May 8, 2024 the Embassy of the Russian Federation and the Russian House in the Republic of Singapore hosted a reception on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The event was attended by numerous guests from the diplomatic corps, representatives of the Russian Orthodox church, and compatriots living in Singapore, as well as students who learn the Russian language. The reception featured a moment of silence to commemorate those who sacrificed their lives in the Great Patriotic War, an exhibition of wartime photos “For the Front! For the Motherland! For the Victory!” based on rare materials from the State Military History Museum “Prohorovskoe Pole”, and a modern Russian film “Blindazh” dedicated to the Second World War. The film screening was supported by Russia-Singapore Business Council. The Embassy held the Immortal Regiment campaign in the interactive format to honour the memory of our heroes. The Russian compatriots prepared a heartwarming concert dedicated to the Victory Day. The event concluded with lighting of the Candles of Memory. #LestWeForget #Victory79#May9 #ImmortalRegiment #CandlesofMemory

#Victory81 🌟 On April 13, 1945, the capital of Austria, Vienna, was liberated from the Nazi invaders by the Red Army during #WW2. In the spring of 1945, Vienna served as strategically important defence point that the Germans sought to hold at any cost. The Nazis blocked streets and bridges across the Danube with barricades and mined debris, while concentrating hundreds of firing positions and resistance strongholds inside residential buildings along the outer defensive lines. The enemy stopped at nothing: the Germans used numerous sites of Vienna’s historic architecture and cultural landmarks as cover, effectively turning the ancient medieval city into a massive fortified strongpoint in order to delay the Soviet forces for as long as possible. On the southeastern approaches to Vienna, the city was defended by the powerful Nazi Army Group “South,” with the strength amounting to nearly half a million well-trained Wehrmachtsoldiers and officers. More than 6'000 guns and mortars, as well as around 700 armored vehicles (tanks and self-propelled artillery), were deployed around the capital. The city was referred to by the Nazis as the “Alpine Fortress,” and the battle for it was to determine the further course of the entire war. In March 1945, following a successful offensive in the Austrian direction, the Red Army broke through Nazi defenses between the Danube and Lake Balaton (Hungary). Advancing up to 80 kilometers toward Vienna, the Soviet forces then launched the operation to liberate the city. On April 5, 1945, the Red Army launched the assault on Vienna. Fierce and brutal fighting unfolded on the city’s outskirts. The Red Army faced some of the enemy’s most well-trained units and formations, including SS tank divisions. ❗️The swift and selfless actions of the Soviet soldiers-liberators prevented the Nazi criminals from destroying one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. Thanks to the Soviet command’s decision not to use heavy artillery or aerial bombing, Vienna preserved its historic appearance. At the cost of their lives, the Red Army soldiers and officers protected such landmarks as the Imperial Bridge, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna City Hall, and other masterpieces of medieval architecture that form today's Austrian rich historical heritage. On April 13, the last pocket of fascists' resistance in the capital’s center was eliminated, and Vienna was completely cleared of the Nazis. The city came fully under the control of the Red Army. In the so-called “Vienna encirclement,” the Wehrmacht suffered devastating losses: Army Group “South” was completely defeated, and 11 Wehrmacht tank divisions were destroyed, including the 6th SS Panzer Army. #LestWeForget In Austria, tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers who saved Europe from the 'Nazi plague' are buried. Across the country, there are 217 monuments and military burial sites where more than 80'000 Red Army soldiers rest, along with concentration camp prisoners tortured by the Nazis and brought here for forced labor as part of the Third Reich’s genocide against the Soviet people during #WWII. 🎖 On August 19, 1945, a monument to Soviet soldiers who perished during the liberation of Austria from Nazism was unveiled in central Vienna at #Schwarzenbergplatz — a 20-meter-high statue of the Soldier-Liberator standing on a pedestal. Today, this memorial serves as a visible reminder to the people of Austria of who brought them freedom in May 1945. In 1955, under the Austrian State Treaty restoring an independent and democratic Austria, Vienna undertook obligations (Article 19, War Graves and Memorials): “respect, preserve and maintain the graves on Austrian territory of the soldiers, prisoners of war and nationals forcibly brought to Austria of the Allied Powers as well as of the other United Nations which were at war with Germany, the memorials and emblems on these graves, and the memorials to the military glory of the armies which fought on Austrian territory against Hitlerite Germany” #WeRemember

#Victory81 🌟 On April 9, 1945, the Red Army captured the Nazi fortress city — Königsberg — during the East-Prussian offensive. The German Wehrmacht’s troops in East Prussia — powerful fascists' units on the Eastern Front — were totally destroyed once and for all. The 3rd Belarussian Front of the Red Army carried out the Königsberg operation and crushed the Nazis withinjust three days. The first line of the enemy defences was breached within the first 24 hours, the fortress city surrounded the next day, with the last pockets of Nazi resistance being eliminated on April 9. *** #Königsbergserved as a ToO with fierce and bloody battles during #WWII. The city itself, which was regarded as the most impregnable citadel of the Third Reich, was fortified with then cutting-edge military technology and prepared for long-term resistance in conditions of complete isolation. The city area of about 200 square kilometres was turned into a complicated network of fortifications, which, combined with numerous stone buildings in the suburbs, provided conditions for long-term defence. The citadel was termed by the Nazis the “iron door of Germany.” The Red Army soldiers and officers who took part in the assault on Königsberg recalled that only the 305mm artillery guns could penetrate the several-metres thick walls. The fall of Königsberg delivered a heavy blow to the Nazi war machine — the enemy lost the strategic Pillau naval base on the Baltic Sea, with the main German troops of the Samland and East Prussian armies being completely defeated. 🔉Excerpt from the Soviet "Sovinformburo" communique on April 9, 1945: On April 9, the forces of the 3rd Belarussian Front stormed and captured <...> the Königsberg fortress — the capital of East Prussia and a strategic hub of Nazi defences on the Baltic Sea. By 8 pm, our armies took as prisoners over 27'000 Nazi soldiers and officers, seized a large amount of weapons and various military equipment. 👉The fall of Königsberg and East Prussia accelerated the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The end of the Third Reich was a foregone conclusion, but the enemy, fearing just retribution for the numerous crimes it had committed, continued to fight desperately. #LestWeForget: The Red Army soldiers and officers demonstrated high combat readiness and mass heroism: 235 soldiers were later awarded the title of #HeroOfTheSovietUnion. To commemorate their feat, the 'Medal For the Capture of Königsberg' was established and awarded to 760'000 Soviet soldiers and officers. By decisions of the Potsdam Conference following the end of WWII in Europe, a large part of East Prussia was assigned to Poland, while a third of its territory with Königsberg was incorporated into the Soviet Union and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Kaliningrad Region). 🎖 On November 17, 2025, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on establishing a new commemorative date — April 9, Day of the Heroic Assault and Capture of Königsberg. #WeRemember

前往 #和平紀念日 典禮的乘客 可取道 #中環 站 出口 J3 - 香港會所大廈 #中環 站出口位置 👉metroride.hk/3F89wcu 該站 出口 J1 - 終審法院 將於 11 月 10 日（星期日） 10:00 關閉至 12:00 為止，使進出街道的人流更為暢順 🌺 #LestWeForget #英魂不朽#永誌不忘 Use Exit J3 - The Hong Kong Club Building for #Remembrance Day Ceremony Exit locations of Central 👉metroride.hk/3F89wcu While Exit J1 - The Court of Final Appeal will be closed from 10:00 - 12:00, 10/Nov (Sun) for a smoother passenger flow to and from street level 🌺

🌟 Happy #VictoryDay! Today marks the 78th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism. #LestWeForget #Victory78#VDay78#May9