Díaz-Canel Participates in Wreath-Laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Moscow, May 9 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel participated, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders present, in the wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier located in the Alexander Garden, adjacent to the Western Wall of the Kremlin.

At the end of the military parade in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, held in Moscow's Red Square, the heads of state and government who responded to the invitation accompanied Russian President Vladimir Putin to pay tribute to the Unknown Soldier in the Kremlin.

Among the invited officials were the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro; President Xi Jinping of China; Kasim-Yomart Tokaev of Kazakhstan; Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba; Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil; and Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia; Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso; and Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, who laid wreaths of red roses to the sound of Soviet music and the Russian anthem, silently honoring the fallen heroes.

In 1966, the remains of an unidentified Soviet soldier were exhumed from a mass grave near Moscow and moved to the Alexander Garden for reburial. A year later, a memorial was unveiled there, with the Eternal Flame at its center. In 1997, an honor guard was established at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

(Source: VTV)