From Moscow Times:
“In Photos: Russians Privately
Honor Those Killed in Dnipro Missile Strike”
The Russian missile strike on a
residential apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last weekend
killed at least 45 people — including six children — and left another 20 people
missing, making it one of the deadliest attacks since Russia's invasion of its
neighbor began almost a year ago. With any form of dissent or protest
effectively outlawed in Russia since a series of draconian new laws were
introduced last year, individual Russian citizens in multiple cities across the
country have responded to the tragedy by placing flowers, candles, and other
tokens of their sorrow at memorials to well-known Ukrainian cultural figures as
a way to honor the dead. In response, Russian law enforcement has made several
arrests, removed any tributes to the dead, and in some cases even stationed
officers to stand watch over Ukraine-linked monuments in a bid to deter any
further public displays of sympathy.
(Flowers and a children's toy are
left in memory of those killed in Dnipro at the Moscow monument to the Ukrainian
poet Lesya Ukrainka.)
(A woman adds a bunch of flowers
to those already left by Muscovites mourning the dead in Dnipro at the feet of
the Lesya Ukrainka monument n Moscow.)
(In an attempt to intimidate
Muscovites planning to add their own tributes, Police officers stand on duty by
the monument to Lesya Ukrainka on Moscow's Ukrainsky Boulevard.)
(Several small tributes have been
left on the monument to Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko in front of
the Ukraine Hotel in Moscow.)
(Monument to Taras Shevchenko in
front of the Ukraine Hotel in Moscow.)
(Flowers left by a memorial stone
marking the original burial place of Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko
in St. Petersburg's Smolensk Cemetery.)
(Multiple bunches of flowers in
front of St. Petersburg's Monument to Taras Shevchenko.)
(Flowers pile up at the Monument
to Taras Shevchenko in St. Petersburg.)
(Flowers and other tokens of
grief at the Monument to Taras Shevchenko in the southern Russian city of
Krasnodar.)
(The Monument to Victims of
Political Repression in the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Ural Mountains.)
(The Monument to Victims of
Political Repression in the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Ural Mountains.)
^ There are still a few brave and
moral Russians out there. Too bad they are silenced by the Millions upon
Millions of immoral Russian Butchers. ^
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