Zakharova shed tears at the SPIEF from the work of the siege of Leningrad

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on June 19 at the session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2025), could not contain her emotions, speaking about the work of a resident of besieged Leningrad, "The Blockade Winter of My Childhood."

"Why am I crying? Because I read this book in one night. <...> When I woke up in the morning, I called my daughter, who is 14 years old, and said: "You should read it." She read it. Despite the fact that she is 14, she read faster than I did," Zakharova said.

According to her, this book turns the minds of even those who do not know about the siege of Leningrad and the Great Patriotic War. The diplomat read out one of the episodes of the book, dedicated to the author's first German bombing, which fell on his birthday.

She noted that today worse lines can be read in the diaries of Donbass children.

"And the world should know this. And when we talk about values, we must understand that these are not empty words, they are not philosophy. This is our fight: it's either us or us," Zakharova concluded.

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