🎖 On February 20 the Russian Embassy in Washington hosted a gala evening dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day.
🇷🇺🇺🇸 The event was attended by heads of diplomatic missions and military attachés from the CIS, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, representatives of Russian and foreign media, employees of Russian directorates at the Bretton Woods institutions, compatriots and American political scientists.
❗️ In his welcoming speech Charge d'Affaires of Russia to the United States A.Kim noted the nationwide character of the holiday, which is inextricably linked to the heroic feats of the Red Army, which defeated Hitler's war machine 80 years ago and saved many nations from annihilation. He emphasized that today Russian Armed Forces continue glorious military traditions, courageously fight in the zone of special military operation and successfully liberate Ukraine from Nazis.
🥇 The guests were introduced to the exposition on the main milestones of the Great Patriotic War from the archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the collection of military posters “From Kremlin to the Reichstag” of the collection of the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora, as well as the photo exhibition about the heroes of the Special Military Operation.
🎖 On February 20 the Russian Embassy in Washington hosted a gala evening dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day.
🇷🇺🇺🇸 The event was attended by heads of diplomatic missions and military attachés from the CIS, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, representatives of Russian and foreign media, employees of Russian directorates at the Bretton Woods institutions, compatriots and American political scientists.
❗️ In his welcoming speech Charge d'Affaires of Russia to the United States A.Kim noted the nationwide character of the holiday, which is inextricably linked to the heroic feats of the Red Army, which defeated Hitler's war machine 80 years ago and saved many nations from annihilation. He emphasized that today Russian Armed Forces continue glorious military traditions, courageously fight in the zone of special military operation and successfully liberate Ukraine from Nazis.
🥇 The guests were introduced to the exposition on the main milestones of the Great Patriotic War from the archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the collection of military posters “From Kremlin to the Reichstag” of the collection of the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora, as well as the photo exhibition about the heroes of the Special Military Operation.
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