Dien Bien, June 6 -- A ceremony was held at the Dien Bien Phu Victory Museum, the northern province of Dien Bien, on June 6 to receive a jar of sacred soil from the Piskaryovskoye memorial cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The Piskaryovskoye memorial cemetery commemorates the sacrifices of soldiers and local civilians during the Nazi siege of the then Leningrad city in World War II.

The jar had previously been handed over to a Dien Bien delegation by Saint Petersburg authorities during a working visit to Russia in May 2025.

Secretary of the Dien Bien provincial Party Committee Tran Quoc Cuong highlighted the symbolic significance of the gesture, calling it an expression of the love for peace and a testament to the enduring friendsh...