🕯 The Russian Embassy in Canada held its annual “Candle of Memory” commemorative event marking the Day of Memory and Sorrow.
At 4 a.m. Moscow time — the very hour when, 8️⃣5️⃣ years ago, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war — candles were lit in memory of the 27 million Soviet citizens who perished during the Great Patriotic War.
❗️That tragic hour marked the beginning of the bloodiest and most devastating war in our country’s history, which lasted 1,418 days. The war of extermination in which the Nazis and their accomplices committed a true genocide. Yet the Soviet people endured and achieved the Great Victory.
🇷🇺 Tomorrow, Russian compatriots will join the commemorative event. They will come to the Embassy to light candles and honour the memory of frontline soldiers, home-front workers, concentration camp prisoners, residents of besieged Leningrad, children of war, and all those who gave their lives for the freedom of the Motherland and a peaceful future for generations to come.
#DayOfMemoryAndSorrow
#CandleOfMemory
#WeRemember
#Victory81
At 4 a.m. Moscow time — the very hour when, 8️⃣5️⃣ years ago, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war — candles were lit in memory of the 27 million Soviet citizens who perished during the Great Patriotic War.
❗️That tragic hour marked the beginning of the bloodiest and most devastating war in our country’s history, which lasted 1,418 days. The war of extermination in which the Nazis and their accomplices committed a true genocide. Yet the Soviet people endured and achieved the Great Victory.
🇷🇺 Tomorrow, Russian compatriots will join the commemorative event. They will come to the Embassy to light candles and honour the memory of frontline soldiers, home-front workers, concentration camp prisoners, residents of besieged Leningrad, children of war, and all those who gave their lives for the freedom of the Motherland and a peaceful future for generations to come.
#DayOfMemoryAndSorrow
#CandleOfMemory
#WeRemember
#Victory81
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🕯В Посольстве России в Канаде прошла ежегодная мемориальная акция «Свеча памяти», приуроченная ко Дню памяти и скорби.
В 4 часа утра по московскому времени, в момент, когда 8️⃣5️⃣ лет назад нацистская Германия без объявления войны напала на Советский Союз, зажглись свечи в память о 27 миллионах советских граждан, погибших в годы Великой Отечественной войны.
❗️Этот трагический час положил начало самой кровопролитной и разрушительной войне в истории нашей страны, длившейся 1 418 дней. Войне на уничтожение, в которой нацисты и их пособники занимались настоящим геноцидом. Но советский народ выстоял и добился Великой Победы.
🇷🇺Завтра к акции присоединится актив российских соотечественников. Участники будут приходить в Посольство, чтобы зажечь свечи и почтить память фронтовиков, тружеников тыла, узников концлагерей, жителей блокадного Ленинграда, детей войны и всех, кто отдал жизнь за свободу Родины и мирное будущее следующих поколений.
#ДеньПамятиИСкорби
#СвечаПамяти
#МыПомним
#Победа81
В 4 часа утра по московскому времени, в момент, когда 8️⃣5️⃣ лет назад нацистская Германия без объявления войны напала на Советский Союз, зажглись свечи в память о 27 миллионах советских граждан, погибших в годы Великой Отечественной войны.
❗️Этот трагический час положил начало самой кровопролитной и разрушительной войне в истории нашей страны, длившейся 1 418 дней. Войне на уничтожение, в которой нацисты и их пособники занимались настоящим геноцидом. Но советский народ выстоял и добился Великой Победы.
🇷🇺Завтра к акции присоединится актив российских соотечественников. Участники будут приходить в Посольство, чтобы зажечь свечи и почтить память фронтовиков, тружеников тыла, узников концлагерей, жителей блокадного Ленинграда, детей войны и всех, кто отдал жизнь за свободу Родины и мирное будущее следующих поколений.
#ДеньПамятиИСкорби
#СвечаПамяти
#МыПомним
#Победа81
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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Statement of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia “On the Genocide of the Soviet People during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (June 21, 2026)
◾️ 85 years ago, Germany treacherously invaded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, marking the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
The actions of the German Nazis and their accomplices were aimed at exterminating the Soviet people.
In the occupied territories, the invaders committed acts aimed at the complete or partial elimination of the national, ethnic and racial groups inhabiting the Soviet Union. These included killing members of these groups, causing serious harm to their health, forcibly preventing births, forcibly transferring children, forcibly displacing people and deliberately creating conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.
🕯 The war claimed the lives of almost 27 million Soviet people. Civilian losses exceeded 13.6 million.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia considers it unacceptable to forget the crimes committed by the Nazis. Preserving the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War is essential to preventing crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, countering manifestations of Nazism, and maintaining universal peace and harmony.
✍️ To preserve the memory of the millions of Soviet citizens who fell victim to Nazi criminals and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War, the Republic of Belarus adopted Law No. 146-Z “On the Genocide of the Belarusian People” of January 5, 2022, while the Russian Federation adopted Federal Law No. 74-FZ “On Perpetuating the Memory of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” of April 21, 2025.
The legislative recognition of the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War is a logical continuation of the judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and subsequent court rulings against Nazi criminals and their accomplices.
Taking into account the Charter of the United Nations of June 26, 1945, the Charter and Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of December 9, 1948, and the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity of November 26, 1968, and guided by the legislation adopted in the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, the Parliamentary Assembly recognises the atrocities committed by the Nazi German invaders and their accomplices against the population of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people.
The members of the Parliamentary Assembly call for resolute opposition to all attempts to rewrite history, justify Nazism or diminish the Soviet people’s role in defeating fascism. They regard support for neo-Nazism for the sake of political expediency as a threat to all humanity.
The members of the Parliamentary Assembly call on the United Nations, international interparliamentary organisations and bodies, and fellow parliamentarians to join this Statement and adopt corresponding statements.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
◾️ 85 years ago, Germany treacherously invaded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, marking the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
The actions of the German Nazis and their accomplices were aimed at exterminating the Soviet people.
In the occupied territories, the invaders committed acts aimed at the complete or partial elimination of the national, ethnic and racial groups inhabiting the Soviet Union. These included killing members of these groups, causing serious harm to their health, forcibly preventing births, forcibly transferring children, forcibly displacing people and deliberately creating conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.
🕯 The war claimed the lives of almost 27 million Soviet people. Civilian losses exceeded 13.6 million.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia considers it unacceptable to forget the crimes committed by the Nazis. Preserving the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War is essential to preventing crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, countering manifestations of Nazism, and maintaining universal peace and harmony.
✍️ To preserve the memory of the millions of Soviet citizens who fell victim to Nazi criminals and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War, the Republic of Belarus adopted Law No. 146-Z “On the Genocide of the Belarusian People” of January 5, 2022, while the Russian Federation adopted Federal Law No. 74-FZ “On Perpetuating the Memory of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” of April 21, 2025.
The legislative recognition of the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War is a logical continuation of the judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and subsequent court rulings against Nazi criminals and their accomplices.
Taking into account the Charter of the United Nations of June 26, 1945, the Charter and Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of December 9, 1948, and the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity of November 26, 1968, and guided by the legislation adopted in the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, the Parliamentary Assembly recognises the atrocities committed by the Nazi German invaders and their accomplices against the population of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people.
The members of the Parliamentary Assembly call for resolute opposition to all attempts to rewrite history, justify Nazism or diminish the Soviet people’s role in defeating fascism. They regard support for neo-Nazism for the sake of political expediency as a threat to all humanity.
The members of the Parliamentary Assembly call on the United Nations, international interparliamentary organisations and bodies, and fellow parliamentarians to join this Statement and adopt corresponding statements.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
🕯On the #DayOfMemoryAndSorrow, marking the 8️⃣5️⃣th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, President Vladimir Putin honoured the memory of those who fell fighting the Nazi invaders.
The President laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden, as well as flowers at the obelisks honouring the Hero Cities and the memorial to the Cities of Military Glory.
🎖 The ceremony was attended by combat veterans, service members and graduates of military schools. Defence Minister Andrei Belousov also laid flowers at the Eternal Flame.
🔴 🔴 No one is forgotten. Nothing is forgotten.
#WeRemember
The President laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden, as well as flowers at the obelisks honouring the Hero Cities and the memorial to the Cities of Military Glory.
🎖 The ceremony was attended by combat veterans, service members and graduates of military schools. Defence Minister Andrei Belousov also laid flowers at the Eternal Flame.
#WeRemember
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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of June 15-21, 2026:
▪️ June 16 – a fixed-wing UAV struck a private residence in Donetsk’s Kirovsky District, Donetsk People’s Republic.
▪️ June 17 – an FPV drone struck a civilian truck in Belgorod, Belgorod Region. One civilian was killed.
▪️ June 17 – a kamikaze drone struck a passenger bus in the Bryansk Region. One woman was killed and eight people were injured, including six children.
▪️ June 18 – one civilian was injured in an FPV drone attack in Bekhtery, Kherson Region.
▪️ June 18 – a UAV struck a civilian truck in Velikiye Kopani, Kherson Region.
▪️ June 18 – a fixed-wing UAV struck a residential apartment building in the Moscow Region.
▪️ June 19 – a UAV struck a civilian truck in Lyubimovka, Kherson Region.
▪️ June 19 – an FPV drone struck a civilian car in Oktyabrsky, Belgorod Region.
▪️ June 19 – an FPV drone struck a passenger minibus in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
▪️ June 21 – an FPV drone struck a civilian car in Russkaya Berezovka, Belgorod Region.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of June 15-21, 2026:
▪️ June 16 – a fixed-wing UAV struck a private residence in Donetsk’s Kirovsky District, Donetsk People’s Republic.
▪️ June 17 – an FPV drone struck a civilian truck in Belgorod, Belgorod Region. One civilian was killed.
▪️ June 17 – a kamikaze drone struck a passenger bus in the Bryansk Region. One woman was killed and eight people were injured, including six children.
▪️ June 18 – one civilian was injured in an FPV drone attack in Bekhtery, Kherson Region.
▪️ June 18 – a UAV struck a civilian truck in Velikiye Kopani, Kherson Region.
▪️ June 18 – a fixed-wing UAV struck a residential apartment building in the Moscow Region.
▪️ June 19 – a UAV struck a civilian truck in Lyubimovka, Kherson Region.
▪️ June 19 – an FPV drone struck a civilian car in Oktyabrsky, Belgorod Region.
▪️ June 19 – an FPV drone struck a passenger minibus in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
▪️ June 21 – an FPV drone struck a civilian car in Russkaya Berezovka, Belgorod Region.