In Samara, people gathered on Glory Square, honored the memory of the military with a minute of silence and laid flowers at the Eternal Flame, RIA Novosti reports.

“We are constantly in touch with the wives of our guys.

It's very hard and scary.

But we can't be broken.

Grief unites,” said Ekaterina Kolotovkina, chairman of the Women’s Council of the 2nd Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army.

The agency also reports that residents of Togliatti paid tribute to the memory of the fallen military in Victory Park.

The day before, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that as a result of a strike by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the HIMARS MLRS on the settlement of Makeyevka, 63 Russian servicemen were killed.

Federation Council Senator Grigory Karasin called for those responsible for the attack on Makeevka in the Donetsk People's Republic.