In particular, Putin sent congratulatory messages to the leaders and citizens of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia.
Also congratulations were sent to the peoples of Georgia and Ukraine.
“Today our moral duty is to carefully preserve and pass on to the younger generations the memory of the events of those harsh years.
We must together resolutely resist any attempts to distort and falsify history, revise the results of the Great Patriotic War, justify the monstrous atrocities committed by the Nazis and their henchmen, ”the head of state said.
On May 7, Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged congratulations on the 76th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War during a telephone conversation.