It is reported by Channel Five.
It is noted that the president spoke with veterans after laying flowers at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in honor of the 77th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad.
“At some point, Nadezhda Panchenko came up to Putin and told about her mother, a 94-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, who lives without benefits and without drugs. The president promised to help, ”the text says.
Earlier, the Russian leader laid flowers at the Rubezhniy Kamen monument on the Nevsky Piglet in the Leningrad Region, where his father was injured during the Great Patriotic War.