Russia: Muscovites commemorate Odessa tragedy with floral tributes at 'Hero Cities' memorial

Hundreds of people laid flowers at the 'Hero Cities' memorial in Aleksandrovski Garden, Moscow, on Saturday, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the deadly blaze at Odessa's Trade Unions House which claimed the lives of 48 anti-Kiev protesters. Forty-eight people died, with over 200 injured, in a series of events that led to an inferno in the Trade Unions building in Odessa on May 2. After clashes erupted between anti-Maidan and pro-Maidan protesters, the latter group reportedly set fire to the Trade Unions House where anti-Maidan demonstrators had found refuge. Earlier in the day, brief scuffles broke out between a protester and mourners in Moscow as hundreds came together outside the Ukrainian embassy to pay their respects to those who died last year.