Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the tomb of an unknown soldier in Moscow on the 79th anniversary of the Nazi invasion into Soviet Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attending events marking the 79th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, on Monday.
Earlier on Monday, along with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and Defence Minister, President Putin visited a new church of Russian Armed Forces located outside of the Russian capital.
Addressing the troops on the square in front of the cathedral, he said that Russia's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II was sacred.
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More than 27 million Soviet citizens died in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.
(AP)
