“Even the stencils weren't taken by the guys... The guys are all from our camp

“Even the stencils weren't taken by the guys... The guys are all from our camp, they didn’t even celebrate the New Year. Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, for our happy future, damn it!”

A local resident of the village of Krolevtsy in the Primorsky Krai of Russia, where 600 people live, shows how “defenders of the motherland” are buried at the local cemetery near the correctional colony. So far, he has counted about 41 graves that have been left without proper care, and the stencils on the tombstones haven’t even been removed.

This year in Russia has been declared the year of the “defender of the motherland,” and this is how the attitude toward these “defenders” looks, who ultimately received "two-room" and "three-room" apartments not in Kyiv, but in an unnamed cemetery with nameless graves.