Vladimir Putin sent greetings to residents of Oryol and Oryol Region on the 75^th anniversary of liberation of the city from fascist invaders.

Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to the participants and guests of the 12^th Russian National Summer Rural Games in Kursk, dedicated to the 75^th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, one of the biggest and most crucial battles of the Great Patriotic War.

The President signed the Federal Law On Amending Articles 2 and 11 of the Law of the Russian Federation On Perpetuating the Memory of the Fallen Defenders of the Motherland.

On the 77^th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall to commemorate the war dead.

Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the monument to Soviet Army soldiers who gave their lives to free Austria from Nazism.

The President took part in the march organised by the Immortal Regiment national public civil-patriotic movement. The President, joining other participants of the event, walked on Red Square holding a portrait of his father.

The Kremlin hosted an official reception to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Victory in the 1941–45 Great Patriotic War.

After the military parade on Red Square, Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden

Vladimir Putin attended a military parade marking the 73^rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.

Vladimir Putin congratulated the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as the citizens of Georgia and Ukraine, on the 73^rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to the participants, organisers and guests of the patriotic concert Thank You for Your Loyalty, Descendants timed to Victory Day.

The list of Russian and foreign journalists accredited to cover the events celebrating the 73^rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War has been published.

Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to the participants and guests of the international forum Victory Forged by Unity: The Heroism of Partisans and Resistance Fighters in the Great Patriotic War, which is underway in Bryansk.

Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport Sergei Ivanov attended the opening ceremony for Memory Watch 2018.

Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to participants and guests of the opening ceremony for the national commemorative event Memory Watch 2018 and wished them a good search season.

Before departing from Volgograd, Vladimir Putin visited the Russia – My History Interactive Museum.

On the 75^th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, the President visited the Battle of Stalingrad State Historical Memorial Museum on Mamayev Kurgan. He laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Military Glory and honoured the memory of those who perished with a minute of silence.

Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu took part in the event devoted to International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the complete lifting of the Nazi siege of Leningrad.