5 May 2021

<p>Online parade for war veterans in Victory Square in Vitebsk</P>

Vitebsk Oblast rescuers have held their first online parade for the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and former firefighters.

Vitebsk Oblast rescuers have held their first online parade for the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and former firefighters.

The event was held in Victory Square near the memorial to Soviet soldiers-liberators, partisans and underground fighters of Vitebsk Oblast. Veterans of the Great Patriotic War and former firefighters watched the parade. There are three war veterans in Vitebsk Oblast: Fyodor Konnov (born in 1927), Ivan Terekhov (born in 1927) and Pavel Ignevko (born in 1923).