Russians Mourn Ukrainians Killed in War at two Statues of two different Ukrainian Poets in Moscow and Saint Petersburg

The Russian people versus Putin the Terrible! A toast to the human spirit!

I readily admit, I was not familiar with any of the two authors.

"Every few minutes, the mourners came, alone, in pairs or in families, to a statue of a Ukrainian writer standing in the center of the Russian capital, laying flowers and stuffed animals at her bronze feet. 

Some said a prayer and left quickly. Others wept. Still others sat for hours on benches nearby, watching in silence as a small but regular flow of people visited what has become a makeshift memorial to victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ..."

"Lesya Ukrainka (Ukrainian: Леся Українка [ˈlɛsʲɐ ʊkrɐˈjinkɐ]; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Ukrainian: Лариса Петрівна Косач; 25 February [O.S. 13 February] 1871 – 1 August [O.S. 19 July] 1913) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. ..." (Wikipedia)

"Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Тарас Григорович Шевченко [tɐˈrɑz ɦrɪˈɦɔrowɪtʃ ʃeu̯ˈtʃɛnko], pronounced [tɐˈrɑs] without the middle name; 9 March [O.S. 25 February] 1814 – 10 March [O.S. 26 February] 1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language, though this is different from the language of his poems. He also wrote some works in Russian (nine novellas, a diary, and an autobiography)." (Wikipedia)

Russians Mourn Ukrainians Killed in War at Statue to a Ukrainian Poet in Moscow - WSJ People have been laying flowers at the Lesya Ukrainka monument in central Moscow nearly every day since the Dnipro apartment strike

Russians lay flowers at improvised memorials to commemorate Dnipro dead

The statue of the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka in Moscow has become a makeshift memorial to Ukrainian victims of Russia’s invasion.

A view shows the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko with flowers laid in memory of the victims of the Russian missile strike on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, in Saint Petersburg, Russia January 20, 2023.