Russian Embassy Officials Visit Liberation Tower

Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Staff members of the Russian embassy here Saturday laid a wreath at the Liberation Tower on the occasion of the Day of Defenders of the Motherland. Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Ambassador Alexandr Matsegora, Military Attache Alexei Bartusov and other members of the Russian embassy and military attaches of foreign embassies here. A wreath was laid at the tower in the name of the Russian embassy. The participants paid a silent tribute to fallen fighters of the Soviet Army and looked round the tower. Staff members of the Russian embassy also placed a wreath and flowers at the cemetery of fallen fighters of the Soviet Army in Sadong District, Pyongyang on the same day. Earlier, they visited a liberation tower, statue of Soviet soldiers and monument to the fallen Soviet soldiers in local areas. -0-