An elderly couple walks along the mass grave with the victims of the Nazi siege of Leningrad in 1942 at the Piskarevskoe Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, 27 January 2023, marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad (Soviet-era name of St. Petersburg) from Nazi blockade in the WWII. Up to 700,000 civilians are believed to have died from hunger, frost, shelling and air bombardment during the siege that lasted some 900 days. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)
