Carnations. Archive photoMELITOPOL, May 5. The memory of media workers who died in the fight against fascism during the Great Patriotic War was honored in the city of Melitopol, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Journalists working in Melitopol and Crimea took part in a meeting-requiem in memory of military journalists at the eternal flame in the city center. «We come to the fraternal cemetery together with thousands of Melitopol residents. Today we joined this action to pay tribute to the memory of military journalists who worked during the Great Patriotic War to to convey to posterity the memory of those terrible events that affected every Soviet citizen,” Olesya Grustneva, a journalist working in Melitopol, told RIA Novosti. . President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and on March 25 they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
