Red Army

BELGRADE - Serbia's main state ceremony commemorating 79th years since the WWII victory over fascism was held at the Memorial to the Liberators of Belgrade on Thursday.

The Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria, Eleonora Mitrofanova, indicated in an interview with RTVI television that Moscow does not exclude the possibility of moving Soviet monuments from Bulgaria to Russia.

The ongoing dismantling of the Soviet Army monument, commonly known as MOCHA (Monument of the Red Army of Occupation), has stirred significant tensions in Sofia, leading to heightened security for the regional governor, Vyara Todeva.

"Bulgaria, without noticing it, has been on the path of rehabilitation of Nazism for a long time".

This is said in the official position of Maria Zakharova - spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the occasion of the removal of the Monument to the Soviet Army, also known as MOCHA - Monument of the Red Army of Occupation.

The need for urgent dismantling, relocation and restoration of the Monument to the Soviet Army has been established. This is clear from the conclusion of the regional administration in Sofia, which investigated the state of the monument (also mockingly called the Monument of the Occupation of the Red Army - MORA).

The monument to the Soviet Army in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia may not be moved from the "Prince's Garden" until the end of the year, according to a press release from the Sofia District Administration.

Set in a thick forest, ringed by limpid lakes and free of violent crime, the town of Borne Sulinowo in northwestern Poland has undeniable bucolic charm - except for the ghosts on every eerily quiet street of the Nazi and then Soviet soldiers who built it.

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday vowed a decisive response to any country threatening Russia and lashed out against Germany for promising tanks for Kiev.

His threats came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Kremlin was consolidating its forces for a fresh offensive.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday sought to cast Moscow's military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies and a necessary move to ward off a potential aggression.

Maribor – An exhibition on the joint struggle of the Western Allies and the Soviet Union against Nazism during the Second World War will open on Thursday at the Maribor International Research Centre for Second World War in cooperation with the Moscow Museum of the Great Patriotic War.