Putin laid a wreath at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevsky cemetery

According to Interfax, after the performance of the Russian anthem, the head of state honored the memory of the dead residents of the besieged city with a bow.

It is noted that on the way to the monument, along the 300-meter alley from the Eternal Flame, the president also laid flowers at one of the mass graves, where his brother Viktor, who died in the blockade at a young age in the winter of 1942, rests.

Putin also laid flowers at the "Frontier Stone" monument on the Nevsky Piglet.