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epa09935854 Participators hold pictures of soldiers during a Red Army Soldiers Memorial procession commemorating the fallen Soviet soldiers during World War II at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, 09 May 2022. The Berlin regional senate banned the showing of Ukrainian and Russian flags near memorials during the weekend of the 77th anniversary of the end of second World War in Germany, to avoid instrumentalization of symbols in correlation to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Nazi Germany formally surrendered on 08 May 1945. At that time in Moscow, Russia, the 09 May had already begun, why Russians commemorate the victory over Nazi Germany on 09 May. EPA/CLEMENS BILAN