4.8K views · 19 reactions | Some 150 volunteers arranged 50,000 candles in St Petersburg early on Wednesday to commemorate the 81st anniversary of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. It took about one hour to light the candles at midnight, with local residents watching from behind a fence for fire safety reasons. Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, on 22 June 1941.  https://bit.ly/3xMCywe | NoComment | Facebook

1M views · 3.7K reactions | Eight decades after Raisa Valiushkevych fled Ukraine to escape Nazi Germany's invasion, the 98-year-old Holocaust survivor found herself fleeing again — this time though to Germany, to escape the Russian bombing of her hometown Kyiv https://reut.rs/3j6tcnT | Reuters | Facebook