Ambassador Dmitry Mironchik laid a wreath at the Monument to fallen Soviet soldiers in Oslo

On May 8, 2020, to commemorate the 75^th  anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Sweden and Norway (concurrently), Dmitry Mironchik, laid a wreath at the Monument dedicated to fallen Soviet soldiers, which is situated at Vestre Gravlund cemetery of the Norwegian capital.

The Memorial in Oslo was erected in 1946-1947 upon the initiative of the Norwegian public on a mass grave where remains of 347 soldiers of the Red Army, who fell in Norway in 1941-1945, were reburied after the war. In December 2019, a capsule containing soil collected at the Monument to soldiers-liberators of Norway was solemnly handed over to the Belarusian Side for placing into the crypt of the All Saints Memorial Church in the Belarusian capital within the framework of the international commemorative campaign “To the Glory of the Common Victory!”.

On the eve of the Victory Day anniversary, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Ms. Søreide, and heads of diplomatic missions of Russia and Ukraine also laid wreaths at the Memorial at Vestre Gravlund cemetery.

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