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00:00We start this broadcast with these latest visuals coming from Russia.

00:04President Vladimir Putin makes a public appearance in Leningrad as a storm is brewing over Russia's borders.

00:11A somber-looking Putin lays flowers at the monument,

00:14commemorating warriors who died during the Nazi-led siege of St. Petersburg 78 years ago.

00:21Putin, who was born in then-Leningrad in 1952, visited the memorial alone.

00:30Putin also laid flowers at the mass grave, where his brother was buried during the siege.

00:44The siege of Leningrad is considered to be one of the longest and deadliest battles of World War II.

00:50It lasted 872 days and cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

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