Muscovites have honored civilians killed in Ukraine by laying flowers at the monument to Ukrainian poet Lesia Ukraínka (1871-1913) in the center of the Russian capital.
The reason was the death of 23 people, four of them children, in the missile attack carried out at dawn on Friday by the Russian army against the city of Uman, in the central region of Cherkasy.
Russians of different ages began placing bouquets of flowers, from roses to carnations, on Friday at the foot of the pedestal of the statue, which pays tribute to one of the greatest exponents of Ukrainian literature.
“Uman, we will not forget,” read one of the papers that wrapped one of the bouquets.
The scene was repeated this Saturday, although according to the Astra portal, the flowers were removed by the police officers who were patrolling the area.
According to the source, the policemen photographed those paying tribute to the dead in Ukraine and in some cases asked for their addresses.
In its daily issue on Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry argued that its attacks were aimed exclusively at military installations.
Laying flowers at the monument has become a tradition since the death last January in a similar attack of almost fifty civilians in an apartment building in the eastern city of Dnipro.
In retaliation, a Russian deputy proposed declaring the romantic poet a foreign agent, even though she died 110 years ago.
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