Lukashenko and Putin opened the Rzhev Memorial on June 30, 2020

On June 30, 2020, Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin opened the Rzhev Memorial.

👉 The land of Rzhev is soaked with the blood of the peoples of the USSR, therefore the memorial was built jointly — part of the funds were allocated from the budget of the Union State. The sculpture of a soldier was installed on a ten-meter mound.

🕯The heads of state spoke with veterans, laid flowers at the memorial, and honored the memory of the fallen heroes with a minute of silence.

"War is always blood, horror, and death. In this inhuman, cruel reality, there are frontiers, the defense of which was paid for at an unimaginable price. Rzhev is precisely such a place, because behind it was the capital of our Motherland and our entire great country. Here the earth burned, stone melted, and armor crumbled, but the Soviet soldier did not surrender. He went into hand-to-hand combat in a fierce fight with the enemy when ammunition ran out. He bled to death in the snow in severe frost. He died, but stood to the end," emphasized Alexander Lukashenko during the ceremony.