The event was held as part of the international patriotic campaign "Candle of Memory", which is held annually to commemorate the anniversary of th beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The ceremony in the Ceremonial Square of the Brest Hero Fortress as attended by cadets of the Ryazan Higher Military Airborne School, veterans of the Armed Forces, cadet students of secondary school No. 35 of Brest.
On 23 February, a ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers was held at the Eternal Flame in Ceremonials Square in the Brest Hero Fortress memorial complex in honor of the Day of Fatherland Defenders and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus.
I am happy to see you here today in the run-up to the important political event – the Address to the Belarusian People and the National Assembly, the Belarusian leader said addressing the participants of the ceremony.
More than 500 conscripts and contract servicemen of the Brest garrison took the military oath in the Ceremonial Square of the Brest Hero Fortress memorial complex.