Overview
- At Nevsky Pyatachok, President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the Rubezhny Stone, a frontline where his father fought.
- He placed flowers at a mass grave along the memorial alley where his brother Viktor is buried, then laid a wreath at the Mother Homeland monument.
- Foreign missions sent wreaths to the monument, including tributes from Thailand, Abkhazia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tanzania, Republika Srpska, the Syrian honorary consul and a wreath marked “From the people of India.”
- In St. Petersburg, the traditional noon shot from the Peter and Paul Fortress was carried out by blockade survivor Herman Smirnov, alongside city wreath-layings at Piskaryovskoye.
- Remembrance events stretched across Russia and abroad with lessons, “blockade bread” actions and a Pattaya gathering for more than 150 children, as officials cited Piskaryovskoye’s burial figures and the 2022 genocide ruling with at least 1,093,842 victims and 35.3 trillion rubles in damage.