LUGANSK, April 25 (Lugansk Media Centre) - Lugansk People’s Republic Head Leonid Pasechnik passed the LPR Flag to Night Wolves.Donbass bikers who set off for the "Victory Roads to Berlin" international tour on Thursday.
“We again send the banner of our Republic via Russian roads, the roads of victory, to Europe. I very much want this banner to make its way to Berlin again. It’s our history; it’s a landmark event,” Pasechnik said.
“We reiterate that it was our victory back in 1945 won by our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, and that we’ll never give away this honour nor will we let anyone tarnish or slander it,” he said.
Pasechnik wished the participants smooth riding noting that the action brought together everybody who fought against fascism.
“Thank you for your work. It’s a good undertaking, it’s our history, our events, our forefathers and our land,” the LPR leader said.
“We promise that the flag of the free LPR which defended its freedom and independence will fly up at the Liberator monument in Berlin’s Treptower Park on May 9,” Night Wolves.Donbass bikers club president Vitaly Kishkinov told Pasechnik.
He reminded that Donbass bikers were joining the action for the third year in a row. In 2019, the LPR and the DPR will be represented by at least 25 bikers whose number might increase later.
The LPR Head administration said the motor march’s itinerary would include Moscow, Tula, Vyazma, Yartsevo, Smolensk, Krasny Township, Senno, Brest, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Auschwitz, Frydek-Mistek, Banska Bystrica, Zvolen, Sturovo, Bratislava, Starovice,, Brno, Prague, Aue, Leipzig, Torgau, Cecilienhof and Berlin.
The final leg of the race will take place in Berlin’s Treptower Park on May 9. Russian bikers will carry the LPR flag and the Banner of Victory along the Park’s memorial alley, lay flowers and light candles at the Warrior-Liberator monument where they will observe a minute of silence in memory of the dead.
On April 25, 2017, Night Wolves. Donbass bikers took the LPR flag to Moscow for the first time to join the Victory Day ride. WW II veterans Vladimir Trofimenko and Vladimir Kuznetsov came to the starting point in Lugansk to see them off.
Victory Roads to Berlin is an annual motorcade; their participants pay tribute to fallen Soviet soldiers who freed the world from the Nazis and remind European countries residents about the true World War II heroes.
