The ceremony timed to the Independence Day was attended by President Alexander Lukashenko, who laid the first wreath. Hundreds of residents of Minsk and guests of the capital came for the ceremony. Officials, veterans, youth, heads of the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches also came to give homage to the heroes of the WWII and commemorated its victims with a moment of silence. After the ceremony the head of the stated greeted foreign ambassadors and military attachés.













