A ceremony has been held in Belarus to bury the remains of 224 Napoleonic soldiers killed in 1812 as the French imperial army retreated from Russia.
Their bodies were discovered last year and their regiments identified from remnants of their uniforms.
The soldiers were buried on the River Berezina, east of the capital Minsk.
The ceremony took place on the 194th anniversary of the crossing of the Berezina by Napoleon's troops, as Russian forces shelled them.
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