INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
occupied city of Mariupol.Sergei Kiriyenko gave a speech alongside the monument, which depicts an elderly Ukrainian woman holding a Soviet
despite Putin officially recognizing both Donetsk and Luhansk as independent countries before the invasion of Ukraine on Feb
said Kiriyenko and Turchak were joined by Russian lawmaker Dmitry Sablin and the Moscow-installed mayor of Mariupol, Konstantin
Ivashchenko.A similar memorial to babushka Anya wasbriefly installed in the Russian border city of Belgorod this week, but was quickly taken
down following reports of vandalism
