A Ukrainian woman greets soldiers with a Soviet flag. Now, she asks Putin to stop killing Ukrainians.

VELYKA DANYLIVKA, Ukraine – In the ruins of Mariupol, on a central square that Russian occupation authorities have named after Lenin’s Young Communist League, a senior Kremlin official waved a red Soviet flag earlier this month. Statue of old lady unveiled.

The image, repeated in similar sculptures, frescoes and billboards throughout Russia and occupied Ukraine, celebrates Anna IvanovaThe inhabitants of this village on the outskirts of Kharkiv, as a symbol of the just cause of Russia war,