epa11107963 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Motherland monument at Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, 27 January 2024, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad (Soviet-era name of St. Petersburg) from Nazi blockade in the WWII. Up to 700,000 civilians are believed to have...

epa11107961 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Motherland monument at Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, 27 January 2024, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad (Soviet-era name of St. Petersburg) from Nazi blockade in the WWII. Up to 700,000 civilians are believed to have...