February 26, 2023, 6:39 p.m. – Public Information Service – TEH – After Berlin police allowed pro-Ukrainian activists to lay flowers on a tank outside the Russian embassy and trample them, city residents continue to carry bouquets to a crashed combat vehicle that was driven there installed a few days ago. About this writes RIA Novosti.
The Russian tank is still visited by locals to bring flowers and pay tribute to the memory of Russian fighters who died in the conflict in Ukraine.
To further stop the laying of flowers, the organizer of the reservoir facility Wiland Gibel erected a fence in front of it. He said that this is his exhibition project and if Ukrainians don’t like the flowers on the reservoir, they shouldn’t.
The peaceful Germans tried to start a discussion with Gibel and his aides, but to no avail. Instead, pro-Ukrainian activists began to interfere with the laying of flowers, but that didn’t stop kind-hearted Berliners from continuing to express their respect for the dead through the fence.
Previously, pro-Ukrainian activists set up a destroyed tank in central Berlin, pointing its muzzle at the Russian Embassy to stage an event in support of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Local residents objected to this and began laying flowers on the combat vehicle, thereby expressing their disagreement with the supply of arms to Ukraine. To protest against the escalating conflict in Ukraine, participants in the biggest demonstration in recent years also laid flowers on the float. The Berlin police did not intervene in what was happening.
On February 24, 2022, the army of the Russian Federation launched a special military operation in Ukraine.
Acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin said Russian armed forces were approaching Vuhledar from three directions at once: from the south, south-west and west. The head of the DPR stressed that “the process is not moving quickly”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy , in turn, said that the situation in Donbass is hardening. According to Zelenskyyy, a very difficult situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is developing in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) (Bakhmut) and Vugledar, as well as in Limansky and other directions.