DPR people's militia serviceman near the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, May 5.A monument to grandmother appeared in Mariaupol, who came out to the Ukrainian military with a Soviet flag, Andriy Turchak, Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, said in his Telegram channel. «In Mariupol, on Lenin Komsomol Square, there is now a monument to grandmother Anya. defended the Red Banner, under which her parents fought,» Turchak wrote and attached a photo of the monument. He also published a video of a speech with the first deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia, Sergei Kiriyenko. Together they visited a city in the south of the DPR. «The symbol of the fight against fascism is the Banner of Victory, and now another symbol has been added — grandmother Anya. Unfortunately, we do not know her full name and patronymic, but we will definitely find out, and I'm sure there will be an opportunity to say Thank her and bow low at her feet, because she has become a living symbol of such a continuity of generations,» Kiriyenko emphasized. According to him, she became a grandmother for the entire Donbass and for all of Russia. 
In Obninsk, they explained why they painted over the graffiti with a grandmother with the flag of the USSR «And now, when the decision of Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Russia is helping to end this eight-year war and put an end to the fight against Nazism and fascism already here, on the Donbass land, it seems to me that the discovery this monument to grandmother Anya is here, so that her monument would rightfully stand next to the heroes of the Soviet Union-Mariupol residents — this is the very connection of generations that our country is strong in,» Kiriyenko concluded. Earlier, a video appeared on Telegram channels, in which an elderly a resident of Ukraine and her husband came out with a Soviet flag to the Ukrainian military. Unexpected guests took the banner from the woman and began to trample on it, then offered her to take food. The woman refused, saying that her parents fought for this symbol. On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. The army has already completed the main task of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
