Description
Added on the 30/10/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Moscow, Apr 26 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Yury Kochetkov) The Mitino cemetery, in Moscow, was the scene of a tribute to those who died in the Chernobyl tragedy of April 26, 1986. The world remembers the 35th anniversary of the nuclear disaster, in which the explosion of reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant spread up to 200 tons of material with radioactivity of 50 million curies, equivalent to 500 atomic bombs like the one dropped in Hiroshima. According to the UN, 50 people died and thousands were evacuated.FOOTAGE OF THE TRIBUTE TO THE VICTIMS OF THE CHERNÓBIL DISASTER AT THE MITINO CEMETERY, IN MOSCOW.
Beslan (Russia), Sept 3 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Maxim Shipenkov).- Russia marked Thursday the sixteenth anniversary of Beslan school siege, with left 334 deaths, of which 184 were children.FOOTAGE OF THE TRIBUTE IN MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF THE ATTACK IN BESLAN.
In Moscow, large crowds gather outside the Crocus concert hall to lay flowers in tribute to the victims of the attack on Friday 22 March that left at least 137 people dead, three of whom are children. IMAGES
Dozens of people lay flowers at a monument in Moscow to the victims of the Soviet labour camps in a silent tribute to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who died in prison. Dozens of police officers patrol the square around the monument following reports of dozens of arrests at similar tributes across Russia. IMAGES
In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offers his condolences to the families of victims of Russian shelling in Sloviansk, which Ukrainian authorities say killed five and injured 15. "Rescue operations are underway in Sloviansk. (...). Everything is being done to save the wounded", he adds. SOUNDBITE